8 DEPARTURE FROM ALBANY. 



CHAPTER V. 



Departure from Albany Country to Utica Fences 

 common in New York State From Utica to Syra 

 cuse Auburn Departure for Canandaigua De 

 scription of American stage-coach Geneva Arrival 

 at Canandaigua Mr Greig Evening at his house 

 Departure for Geneseo. 



May 1841. 



ON the 18th, I left Albany by the railway 

 for Auburn distant about 200 miles. For 

 about twenty miles from the former place, the 

 soil is light and sandy ; after that it improves 

 to Utica, exhibiting the same rich appearance 

 I had before remarked. The fields seem well 

 cleared and are all enclosed, bearing crops of 

 wheat, Indian corn and clovers, or lying in 

 pastures ; but still there is an absence of those 

 improved modes of agricultural practice for 

 which the soil and climate are so well adapted 



