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but this deficiency is made up by a vail: 

 quantity of oyfters, lobfters, crabs, feveral 

 kinds of fifh, and numbers of water fowl, 

 all which are there far more abundant 

 than on the northern fhores of the Ifland. 

 Therefore the Indians formerly chofe the 

 fouthern part to live in, becaufe they fub- 

 fifted on oyfters, and other productions 

 of the fea. When the tide is out, it is 

 very eafy to fill a whole cart with cyders, 

 which have been driven on fhore by one 

 flood. The Ifland is ftrewed with oyfter- 

 fhells and other fhells, which the Indians 

 left there j thefe fhells ferve now for good 

 manure for the fields. The fouthern part 

 of the Ifland is turned into meadows, and 

 the northern part into fields. The winter 

 is more conftant on the northern part, and 

 the fnow in fpring lies longer there than on 

 the fouthern part. The people are very 

 fertile here, and commonly tail and flrong. 

 June the 10th. At noon we left New 

 York, and failed up the river Hudjbn, in a 

 yacht bound for Albany. All this afternoon 

 we faw a whole fleet of little boats return- 

 ing from New York, whither they had 

 brought provisions and other goods for fale, 

 which on account of the extenfive com- 

 merce of this town, and the great number 

 qf its inhabitants, go off very well. The 

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