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anchor here, becaufe the porj^is open only 

 on that fide. The entrance however has its 

 faults : one of them is, that no men of 

 war can pafs through it ; for though the 

 water is pretty deep, yet it is not fufficient- 

 ly fo for great fhips. Sometimes even mer- 

 chant fhips of a large fize have by the roll- 

 ing of the waves and by finking down be- 

 tween them, flightly touched the bottom, 

 though without any bad confequences. 

 Befides this, the canal is narrow; and for 

 this reafon many fhips have been loft here, 

 becaufe they may be eafily caft upon a fand, 

 if the ihip is not well piloted. Some old 

 people, who had conftantly been upon this 

 canal, afTured me, that it was neither 

 deeper, nor Ihallovver at prefent, than in 

 their youth. 



The common difference between high 

 and low water at New Tork, amounts to 

 about fix feet, Englifi meafure. But at a 

 certain time in every month, when the tide 

 flows more than commonly, the difference 

 in the height of the water is feven feet. 



New York probably carries on a more 

 extenfive commerce, than any town in the 

 Englijh North American provinces ; at leafl 

 it may be faid to equal them : Bofton and 

 Philadelphia however come very near up to 

 it. The trade of New Tork extends to 



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