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deal of pains to get upwards. But afterwards 

 it becomes very deep, for the fpace of feveral 

 miles ; and the water moves very flowly. 

 The mores are very fteep, though they arc 

 not very high. The river is two mufket- 

 {hot broad. In the afternoon it changed 

 its direction ; for hitherto its direction was 

 from North to South, but now it came 

 from N. N. E. to S. S. W. and fometimes 

 from N. E. to S. W. 



Anthills are very fcarce in America \ 

 and I do not remember feeing a fingle one 

 before I came to the Cohoes Fall. We ob- 

 ferved a few in the woods to-day. The 

 Ants were the fame with our common red 

 ones (Formica rufa Linn. J The Ant-hills 

 confift chiefly of the flate-like mouldered 

 ftone which abounds here, there being 

 nothing elfe for them. 



Chestnut-trees grew fcattered in the 

 woods. We were told, that Mulberry- 

 trees fMorus rubra Linn.) likewife grow 

 wild here, but rather fcarce ; and this 

 is the mod northerly place where they 

 grow in Ajnerica; at leaft, they have not 

 been obferved further to the north. We 

 met with wild parfneps every day -, but 

 commonly in fuch places where the land 

 was or had been cultivated. Hemp grows 



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