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was leafed for one hundred pounds of New 

 Tork currency. The perfon who had taken 

 the leafe, again let fome greater and fome 

 fmallerlots of ground, to the inhabitants of 

 Albany, for making kitchen-gardens of; 

 and by that means reimburfed himfelf. 

 Portulack fPortulaca oleracea) grows fpon- 

 taneoufly here in great abundance, and 

 lcoks very well. 



June the 20th. The tide in the river 

 Hudfon goes about eight or ten Englijh miles 

 above Albany, and confequently runs one 

 hundred and fifty-fix E?iglijh miles from 

 the fea. In fpring, when the fnow melts, 

 there is hardly any flowing near this town ; 

 for the great quantity of water which comes 

 from the mountains during that feafon, oc- 

 cafions a continual ebbing. This likewife 

 happens after heavy rains. 



The cold is generally reckoned very fe- 

 vere here. The ice in the river Hudfon is 

 commonly three or four feet thick. On 



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the 3d of April fome of the inhabitants 

 croffed the river with fix pair of horfes. 

 The ice commonly dirTolves about the end 

 of March, or beginning of April. Great 

 pieces of ice come down about that time, 

 which fometimes carry with them the 

 houfes that ftand clofe to the fhore. The 

 water is very high at that time in the 



riven 



