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have fixed upon with the French merchants. 

 The Indians take in return feveral kinds of 

 cloth, and other goods, which may be got 

 here at a lower rate than thoie which arc 

 fent to Canada from France. 



The greater part of the merchants at 

 Albany have extenfive eftates in the coun- 

 try, and a great deal of wood. If their 

 eftates have a little brook, they do not fail 

 to erecl: a faw-mill upon it for fawing 

 boards and planks, with which commodity 

 many yachts go during the whole fummer 

 to New York, having fcarce any other lad- 

 ing than boards. 



Many people at Albany make the wam- 

 pum of the Indians, which is their orna- 

 ment and their money, by grinding fome 

 kinds of (hells and mufcles ; this is a con- 

 fiderable profit to the inhabitants. I fhall 

 fpeak of this kind of money in the fequel. 

 The extenfive trade which the inhabitants of 

 Albany carry on, and their fparing manner of 

 life, in the Dutch way, contribute to the con- 

 fiderable wealth which many of them acquire. 



The inhabitants of Albany and its en- 

 virons are almofl all Dutchmen. They 

 fpeak Dutch, have Dutch preachers, and 

 divine fervice is performed in that language : 

 their manners are likewife quite Dutch ; 

 their drefs is however like that of the 

 JLngliJh. It is well known that the firft 



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