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peculiar kind of oftentation would eafily 

 kad a traveller, who pafTes through the 

 town in hafte, to believe that moft of the 

 houfes are built of bricks. The houfes 

 were covered with (hingles ; before each 

 door there was an elevation, to which 

 you afcend by feme fteps from the flreet ; 

 it refembled a fmall balcony, and had fome 

 benches on both fides, on which the people 

 fat in the evening, in order to enjoy the 

 frefh air, and to have the pleafure of view- 

 ing thofe who paffed by. The town has 

 only one flreet lengthways, and at its nor- 

 thern extremity there is a flreet acrofs j 

 both of thefe are of a confiderable length. 



The river Rareton pafTes hard by the 

 town, and is deep enough for great yachts 

 to come up ; its breadth near the town is 

 within the reach of a common gun fhot ; 

 the tide comes up feveral miles beyond the 

 town, the yachts were placed lengthways 

 along the bridge ; the river has very high 

 and pretty fleep banks on both fides, but 

 near the town there are no fuch banks, it 

 being fituated in a low valley. One of the 

 ftrcets is almofl entirely inhabited by Dutch- 

 men, who came hither from Albany, and 

 for that reafon they call it Albany fireet. 

 Thefe Dutch people only keep company 

 among themfelves, and feldom or never go a- 

 mongfl the other inhabitants, living as it were 

 P 3 quite 



