Q HUDSON. 



conversant with a proper mode of husbandry, 

 and would willingly grant to persons of that 

 description favourable leases for a term of 

 years ; and, as his estate is situate within seven 

 hours sail of the New York market, a grand 

 field is here laid open for agricultural emigrants 

 from Britain. 



On the 15th, about 2 p. M. I resumed my 

 voyage up the Hudson, in the steamer for 

 Albany, distant fifty miles. The shore on 

 both sides continues bold and rocky, but be- 

 yond, as far as the eye can reach, it travels 

 over a country rich in enclosed fields, woods, 

 and villas. 



Ariving at Albany at 6 o'clock, I was met 

 on board by a Mr Southam from Oxfordshire, 

 who has been in the country three or four 

 years, and occupies a farm of 300 acres about 

 ninety miles from Albany, which, lying quite 

 out of my route, I was not able to visit, and 

 this I the less regretted as I understood it is 

 still in a very rough state, and does not yet 

 fully exhibit the effects of subjection to the 

 English mode of management. Mr Southam 



