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ty farms, and good orchards, in view. The 

 weftern more is likewife fomewhat high, 

 but ftill covered with woods, and we now 

 and then, though feldom, faw one or two 

 little fettlements. The river is above an 

 Engll/h mile broad in moft places, and 

 comes in a ftrait line from the North, fo 

 that we could not fometimes follow it with 

 our eye. 



June the i3th. THE wind favoured 

 our voyage during the whole night, fo that 

 I had no opportunity of obferving the na- 

 ture of the country. This morning at five 

 o'clock we were but nine Engltfh milqs 

 from Albany. The country on both fides 

 the river is low, and covered with woods, 

 excepting a few little fcattered fettlements. 

 Under the higher Chores of the river are 

 wet meadows, covered with fvvord-grafs 

 ; (Carex)y and they formed feveral little 

 I iflands. We faw no mountains ; and haf- 

 tened towards Albany. The land on both 

 j fides of the river is chiefly low, and more 

 carefully cultivated as we came nearer to 

 it .Albany. 



As to the houfes, which we faw, fome 

 .1 were of wood, others of ftone. The river 

 :j is feldom above a mufket-fhot broadband 

 ', in feveral parts of it are fands, which 

 I require great experience for governing the 



yachts. 



