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quantities of wheat, which is brought to 

 Albany ; and from thence they fend many 

 yachts laden with flour to New York. 

 The wheat-flour from Albany is reckoned 

 the befl: in all North America, except that 

 from Sopus cr Kings Town, a place between 

 Albany and New Tork. All the bread in 

 Albany is made of wheat. At New Tork 

 they pay the Albany flour with feveral 

 {hillings more per hundred weight, than 

 that from other places. 



Rye is likewife fown here, but not fo 

 generally as wheat. 



They do not fow much barley here, be- 

 cauie they do not reckon the profits very 

 great. Wheat is fo plentiful that they make 

 malt of it. In the neighbourhood of New 

 Tork, I faw great fields fo*:vn with barley. 



They do not fow more oats than are ne- 

 ceflary for their horfes. 



The Dutch and Germans who live here- 

 abouts, fow peafe in great abundance ; they 

 fucceed very well, and are annually carried 

 to New Tork, in great quantities. They 

 have been free from infe&s for a confider- 

 able time. But of late years the fame 

 beetles which deflroy the peafe in Penfyl- 

 vania, New Jcrfey, and the lower parts of 

 the province of New Tork *, have likewife 



appeared 

 1 1 have mentioned them before. See vol. i. p. i y6^ 1 77* 



