Between Albany end Saratoga, 275 



the trees which we met with on the rifin^ 

 mores of the river, where fome Afparagus 

 (Afparagus officinalis) grew wild. 



We pafted the night about fix miles from 

 Albany, in a countryman's cottage. On. 

 the weft fide of the river we faw feverai 

 houfes, one after another, inhabited by 

 the defendants of the firft Dutch fettlers, 

 who lived by cultivating their grounds. 

 About half an Englijh mile beyond our 

 lodgings, was the place where the tide 

 flops in the river Hud/on, there being only 

 fmall and fhallow ft reams above it. At 

 that place they catch a good many forts of 

 fifh in the river. 



The barns Were generally built in the 

 Dutch way, as I have before defcribed 

 them * ; for in the middle was the thread- 

 ing- floor, above it a place for the hay and 

 ftraw, and on each fide ftables for horfes, 

 cows, and other animals. The barn itfelf 

 was very large. Sometimes the buildings 

 in the court-yard confift only of a room, 

 and a garret above it, together with a barn 

 upon the above plan. 



June the 2 2d. This morning I followed 

 one of our guides to the water-fall near Co- 

 hoes, in the river Mohawk, before it falls 



S 2 into 



* See in the firft Volume, p. 223, 224. 



