28 DEPARTURE FROM ALBANY. 



CHAPTER V. 



Departure from Albany Country to Utica Fences 

 common in New York State From Utica to Syra- 

 cuse Auburn Departure for Canandaigua De- 

 scription of American stage-coach Geneva Arrival 

 at Canandaigua Mr Greig Evening at his house 

 Departure for Geneseo. 



May 1841. 



ON the 18th, I left Albany by the railway 

 for Auburn distant about 200 miles. For 

 about twenty miles from the former place, the 

 soil is light and sandy ; after that it improves 

 to Utica, exhibiting the same rich appearance 

 I had before remarked. The fields seem well 

 cleared and are all enclosed, bearing crops of 

 wheat, Indian corn and clovers, or lying in 

 pastures ; but still there is an absence of those 

 improved modes of agricultural practice for 

 which the soil and climate are so well adapted 



