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peculiar kind of oftentation would eafily 

 lead a traveller, who paries through the 

 town in hafte, to believe that moft of the 

 houfes are built of bricks. The houfes 

 were covered with mingles ; before each 

 door there was an elevation, to which 

 you afcend by fome fteps from the ftreet ; 

 it refembled a fmall balcony, and had fome 

 benches on both fides, on which the people 

 fat in the evening, in order to enjoy the 

 frefh air, and to have the pleafure of view- 

 ing thofe who paiTed by. The town has 

 only one ftreet lengthways, and at its nor- 

 thern extremity there is a ftreet acrofs ; 

 both of thefe are of a confiderable length. 



The river Rareton pafles hard by the 

 town, and is deep enough for great yachts 

 to come up ; its breadth near the town is 

 within the reach of a common gun mot; 

 the tide comes up feveral miles beyond the 

 town, the yachts were placed lengthways 

 along the bridge ; the river has very high 

 and pretty fteep banks on both fides, but 

 near the town there are no fuch banks, it 

 being fituated in a low valley. One of the 

 ftreets is almoft entirely inhabited by Dutch- 

 men, who came hither from Albany, and 

 for that reafon they call it Albany ftreet : 

 thefe Dutch people only keep company 

 among themfelves, and feldom or never go a- 

 mongft the other inhabitants, living as it were 



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