Between Albany and Saratoga. 275 



the trees which we met with on the rifing 

 fliores of the river, where fome Afparagus 

 (Afparagus officinalis) grew wild. 



We palled the night about fix miles from 

 Albany, in a countryman's cottage. On 

 the weft fide of the river we faw feveral 

 houfes, one after another, inhabited by 

 the descendants of the firft Dutch fettlers, 

 who lived by cultivating their grounds. 

 About half an Englljh mile beyond our 

 lodgings, was the place where the tide 

 (tops in the river Hudfon, there being only 

 fmall and mallow ft reams above it. At 

 that place they catch a good many forts of 

 nfh in the river. 



The barns were generally built in the 

 Dutch way, as I have before defcribed 

 them * j for in the middle was the thresh- 

 ing-floor, above it a place for the hay and 

 ftraw, and on each fide ftables for horfes, 

 cows, and other animals. The barn itfelf 

 was very large. Sometimes the buildings 

 in the court-yard confift only of a room, 

 and a garret above it, together with a bam 

 upon the above plan. 



"June the 2 pd. This morning I followed 



one of our guides to the water-fall near Co- 



koes, in the river Mohawk, before it falls 



S . 2 into; 



* See in thefuft Volume, p. 223, 224.. 



