228 June 1749. 



river Hudfon runs from North to South 

 here, except fome high pieces of land 

 which fometimes project far into it, and 

 alter its direction ; its breadth at the mouth 

 is reckoned about a mile and a quarter. 

 Some porpefles played and tumbled in the 

 river. The eafterri fhore, or the New York 

 fide, was at firft very fteep and high ; but 

 the weftern was very floping and covered 

 with woods. There appeared farm-houfes 

 on both fides, furrounded with corn-fields. 

 The ground of which the fteep fhores con- 

 fifted was of a pale brick colour, and fome 

 little rocks of a grey fand-ftone were feen 

 here and there. About ten or twelve miles 

 from New Tork, the weftern fhore appears 

 quite different from what it was before; 

 it confifts of fteep mountains with perpen- 

 dicular fides towards the river, and they 

 are exactly like the fteep fides of the moun- 

 tains of fo//.and Hunnebarg in Weft Goth- 

 land Sometimes a rock projects like the 

 falliant angle of a baftion : the tops of thefe 

 mountains are covered with oaks, and other 

 v, ood j a number of ftones of all fizes lay 

 along the fhore, having rolled down from 

 the mountains. 



THESE high and fteep mountains con- 

 tinue for fome Englijh miles on the weftern 

 fhore -, but on the eafterri fide the land is 



high, 



