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anchor here, becaufe the port is open only 

 on that fide. The entrance however has its 

 faults : one of them is, that no men of 

 war can pafs through it ; for though the 

 water is pretty deep, yet it is not fufficient- 

 ly fo for great mips. Sometimes even mer- 

 chant mips of a large fize have by the roll- 

 ing of the waves and by finking down be- 

 tween them, flightly touched the bottom, 

 though without any bad confequences. 

 Befides this, the canal is narrow ; and for 

 this reafon many ihips have been loft here, 

 becaufe they may be eafily caft upon a fand, 

 if the fhip is not well piloted. Some old 

 people, who had constantly been upon this 

 canal, affured me, that it was neither 

 deeper, nor Shallower at prefent, than in 

 their youth. 



The common difference between high 

 and low water at New Tork, amounts to 

 about fix feet, Englifo meafure. But at a 

 certain time in every month, when the tide 

 flows more than commonlv, the difference 

 in the height of the water is feven feet. 



New York probably carries on a more 

 extenfive commerce, than any town in the 

 Englijh North American provinces ; at leaft 

 it may be faid to equal them : Bojlon and 

 Philadelphia however come very near up to 

 it. The trade of New Tork extends to 



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