286 June 1749". 



The Saffafras-trees abound here, but 

 never grow to any confiderable height. 



Ch estnut-trees appear now and then . 



The Cock/pur Hawthorn (Cratagus Crus 

 Galli Linn.) grows in the poorefl foil, and 

 has very long fpines ; which mews, that it 

 may be very advantageoufly planted in 

 hedges, efpecially in a poor foil. 



This night we lodged with a farmer, 

 who had returned to his farm after the war 

 was over. All his buildings, except the 

 great barn, were burnt. 



June the 24th. The farm where we 

 paffed the night was the laft in the pro- 

 vince of New York> towards Canada, which 

 had been left Handing, and which was now 

 inhabited. Further on, we met flill with 

 inhabitants : but they had no houfes, and 

 lived in huts of boards ; the houfes being 

 burnt during the war. 



As we continued our journey, we ob- 

 ferved the country on both fides of the 

 river to be generally flat, but fometimes 

 hilly ; and large traces of it are covered 

 with woods of fir-trees. Now and then 

 we found fome parts turned into corn- 

 fields and meadows ; however, the greater 

 part was covered with woods. Ever fince 

 we left Albany, almoft half-way to Saratoga, 

 the river runs very rapid ; and it coft us a 



deal 



