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hills in the north, beyond the diftant forefts. 

 The inhabitants are Dutch, and bear an in- 

 veterate hatred to all Englifkmen. 



We lay over night in a little hut of 

 boards erected by the people who were 

 come to live here. 



June the 25th. Several faw-mills were 

 built here before the war, which were very 

 profitable to the inhabitants, on account of 

 the abundance of wood which grows here. 



The boards were eaiily brought to Alba- 

 ny, and from thence to New Tork, in rafts 

 every fpring with the high water ; but all 

 the mills were burnt at prefent. 



This morning w r e proceeded up the 

 river, but after we had advanced about an 

 Englif/J mile, we fell in with a water-fall, 

 which coft us a deal of pains before we 

 could get our canoe over it. The water 

 was very deep juft below the fall, owing to 

 its hollowing the rock out by the fall. In 

 every place where we met with rocks in the 

 river, we found the water very deep, 

 from two to four fathoms and upwards ; 

 becaufe by finding a refiflance it had 

 worked a deeper channel into the 

 ground. Above the fall, the river is very 

 deep again, the water Hides along lilently, 

 and increafes fuddenly near the fhores. On 

 both fides till you come to Fort Ni- 

 cholfon, the more is covered with tall 



T 2 trees. 



