272 junc 1749; 



to reach the ground eafily. Thus the 

 rowers are forced to ftand upright, whilft 

 they row in a canoe. We kept along the 

 more all the evening, towards the river^ 

 it confuted of great hills, and next to the 

 water grew the trees, which I have above 

 mentioned *, and which likewife are to 

 be met with on the fhores of the ifle, in the 

 river, fituate below Albany. The eafterly 

 more of the river is uncultivated* woody* 

 and hilly ; but the weflern is flat, culti- 

 vated, and chiefly turned into corn-fields, 

 which had no drains, though they wanted 

 them in fome places. It appeared very 

 plainly here, that the river had forme rly 

 been broader. For there is a Hoping bank 

 on the corn-fields, at about thirty yards 

 diftance from the river, with which it al- 

 ways runs parallel. From this it fuffici- 

 ently appears, that the rifing ground for- 

 merly was the more of the river, and the 

 corn-fields its bed. As a further proof, it 

 may be added, that the fame (hells which 

 abound on the prefent more of the river, 

 and are not applied to any ufe by the in- 

 habitants, ly plentifully fcattered on thefe 

 fields. I cannot fay whether this change 

 was occafioned by the diminiming of the 



water 



*■ See page 251, 



