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ty farms, and good orchards, in view. The 

 weftern fhore is likewiie fomewhat high, 

 but (till covered with woods, and we now 

 and then, though feldom, law one or two 

 little fettlements. The river is above an 

 Englifh mile broad in moft places, and 

 comes in a ftrait line from the North, fo 

 that we could not fometimes follow it with 

 our eye. 



June the 13th. The wind favoured 

 our voyage during the whole night, fo that 

 I had no opportunity of obferving the na- 

 ture of the country. This morning at five 

 o'clock we were but nine Englifh miles 

 from Albany. The country on both fides 

 the river is low, and covered with woods, 

 excepting a few little fcattered fettlements. 

 Under the higher fhores of the river are 

 wet meadows, covered with fword-grafs 

 (Car ex), and they formed feveral little 

 iflands. We faw no mountains ; and haf- 

 tened towards Albany. The land on. both 

 fides of the river is chiefly low, and more 

 carefully cultivated as we came nearer to 

 Albany. 



As to the houfes, which we faw, fome 

 were of wood, others of flone. The river 

 is feldom above a mufket-fhot broad, and 

 in feveral parts of it are fands, which 

 require great experience for governing the 



vachts. 



