Between Albany and Saratoga. 27 r 



this occafion : For the name of God is blaf- 

 fbemed among ft the Gentiles, through you f. 



Jane the 21ft. About five o'clock in 

 the afternoon we left Albany, and pro- 

 ceeded towards Canada. We had two men 

 with us, who were to accompany us to 

 the firft French place, which is Fort St. 

 Frederick, or, as the Englijh call it, 

 Crown Point. For this fervice each of them 

 was to receive five pounds of New Tork 

 currency, befides which I was to provide 

 them with victuals. This is the common 

 price here, and he that does not choofe to 

 conform to it, is obliged to travel alone. 

 We were forced to take up with a canoe *, 

 as we could get neither battoes, nor boats 

 of bark ; and as there was a good road a!on<* 

 the weft fide of the river Hudfon, we left 

 the men to row forwards, in the canoe, 

 and we went along it on the more, that 

 we might be better able to examine it, and 

 its curiolities, with greater accuracy, it is 

 very incommodious to row in thefe canoes ; 

 for one ftands at each end and pufhes the 

 boat forwards. They commonly keep 

 clofe to the more, that they may be able 



to 



t Romans it, 24. 



• See the defcripcion of it, p. 241. 



