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some small lakes, and extensive open marshes, and through 

 some smart towns. Utica, one of the largest and prettiest, 

 has two or three churches, and other places of worship, with 

 large and neat houses, some few of brick, but the greater 

 part of frame, and painted in various shades of yellow and 

 stone colouring, which gives them a gay and lively appear 

 ance. In some of these new towns, the streets are as yet 

 only ridged, or &quot; turnpiked,&quot; in the centre; others are gra 

 velled, but none, I believe, yet paved. Land worth from 

 6 to 25 or 30 dollars per acre, or from 305. to 71. 10$. 

 Cows from 11. 4s. to 41. [Os. each; sheep 4s. 6d. to 9s; 

 horses from 41. 10s. to 16 or 111. 



June 24. A cloudy pleasant day. An agreeable way of 

 travelling, by boat ; you can sit and view the varied scenes 

 of the country through which you pass, write or read, lie 

 down at your ease, or get out and walk for exercise when 

 you please. Passed by a small plot of ground planted with 

 hops, which looked pretty well. People busy ploughing 

 between their corn, or maize, (wheat, rye, barley, &c. are 

 here universally called grain). The people ever since I left 

 Baltimore are all &quot; guessers &quot; and &quot; calculators,&quot; and on 

 asking a question, and it be not understood, they say u how, 

 sir?&quot; or &quot; how is that, sir?&quot; or &quot; which ?&quot; or &quot; which is it?&quot; 

 June 25. Passed through Rochester, situated on the 

 Genessee river, near some large falls of water, which work 

 a number of flour mills and other machinery. This place is 

 well situated for trade, and has thriven remarkably. There 

 are no locks between Rochester and Lockport, a distance of 

 65 miles ; nor is the country much settled, being too wet 

 and flat. Lockport is a place of some business ; five of the 

 locks rise 60 or 80 feet up a rock of blackish hard stone ; 

 they are finished off in a neat, not to say elegant style. 

 People in some parts of this western country appear to act 

 under little restraint with regard to the duties of a Christian 

 Sabbath ; for although no stores (shops) are open, I saw 

 along the canal, in several places, people loading boats, 

 carting, &c., and a woman in the boat knitting all day with 

 out exciting any notice or remark. 



June 26. Walked the five miles portage, and gave 

 Is. \*d. for the carriage of my trunks. A number of peo 

 ple, chiefly Irish, blasting the rocks, and clearing out the 

 bottom of the canal. Slept at a log-tavern to-night for the 

 first of the kind, in the bar room, which had a hole through 



