228 June 1749. 



river Hud/on runs from North to South 

 here, except .fome high pieces of land 

 which fometimes project far into it, and 

 alter its direction ; its breadth at the mouth 

 is reckoned about a mile and a quarter. 

 Some porpeffes played and tumbled in the 

 river. The eaftern fhore, or the New York 

 fide, was at firft very fteep and high ; but 

 the weftern was very floping and covered 

 with woods. There appeared farm-houfes 

 on both fides, furrounded with corn-fields. 

 The ground of which the fteep mores con- 

 fided was of a pale brick colour, and fome 

 little rocks of a grey fand-ftone were feen 

 here and there. About ten or twelve miles 

 from New York, the weftern fhore appears 

 quite different from what it was before j 

 it confifts of fteep mountains with perpen- 

 dicular fides towards the river, and they 

 are exactly like the fteep fides of the moun- 

 tains of Hall and Hunnebarg in Weft Goth- 

 land. Sometimes a rock projects like the 

 failiant angle of a baftion : the tops of thefe 

 mountains are covered with oaks, and other 

 woods a number of ftones of all fizes lay 

 along the fhore, having rolled down from 

 the mountains. 



These high and fteep mountains con- 

 tinue for fome Englijh miles on the weftern 

 more j but on the eaftern fide the land is 



high, 



