20 HUDSON. 



conversant with a proper mode of husbandry, 

 and would willingly grant to persons of that 

 description favourable leases for a term of 

 years ; and, as his estate is situate within seven 

 hours sail of the New York market, a grand 

 field is here laid open for agricultural emigrants 

 from Britain. 



On the 15th, about 2 p. M. I resumed my 

 voyage up the Hudson, in the steamer for 

 Albany, distant fifty miles. The shore on 

 both sides continues bold and rocky, but be 

 yond, as far as the eye can reach, it travels 

 over a country rich in enclosed fields, woods, 

 and villas. 



Ariving at Albany at 6 o clock, I was met 

 on board by a Mr Southam from Oxfordshire, 

 who has been in the country three or four 

 years, and occupies a farm of 300 acres about 

 ninety miles from Albany, which, lying quite 

 out of my route, I was not able to visit, and 

 this I the less regretted as I understood it is 

 still in a very rough state, and does not yet 

 fully exhibit the effects of subjection to the 

 English mode of management. Mr Southam 



