$78 "June 1749. 



wetted at once, as from a rain. The whirl- 

 pools, which were in the water below the fall, 

 contained feveral kinds of fim; and they were 

 caught by fome people, who amufed them- 

 f elves with angling. The rocks hereabouts 

 infill" of the fame black ftone which forms 

 the hills about Albany. When expofed to 

 the air, it is apt to fhiver into horizontal 

 flakes, as ilate does. 



At noon we continued our journey to 

 Canada in the canoe, which was pretty long, 

 and made out of a white pine. Somewhat 

 beyond the farm where we lay at night, the 

 river became fo mallow that the men could 

 reach the ground every where with their 

 oars ; it being in fome parts not above two 

 feet, and fometimes but one foot deep. The 

 thore and bed of the river conf;fted of fand 

 and pebbles. The river was very rapid, and 

 again ft us ; fo that our rowers found it hard 

 work to get forward againft the flream. 

 The hills along the more confided merely 

 of foil ; and were very high and ileep in 

 fome parts. The breadth of the river was 

 generally near two mufket-fhot. 



Sturgeons abound in the river Hud/on. 

 We faw them for feveral days together leap 

 high up into the air, efpecially in the even* 

 ing ; our guides, and the people who lived 

 hereabouts, aliened that they never fee any 



fturgeens 



