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tiills in the north, beyond the diflant forefts. 

 The inhabitants are Dutch, and bear an in- 

 veterate hatred to all Englifimen. 



We lay over night in a little hut of 

 boards erected by the people who were 

 come to live here. 



Jime the 25th. Several faw-mills were 

 built here before the war, which were very 

 profitable to the inhabitants, on account of 

 the abundance of wood which grows here. 



The boards were eafily brought to Alba- 

 ny, and from thence to New fork, in rafts 

 every fpring with the high water ; but all 

 the mills were burnt at prefent. 



This morning we proceeded up the 

 river, but after we had advanced about an 

 Engtifi mile, we fell in with a water-fall, 

 which coft us a deal of pains before we 

 could e;et our canoe over it. The water 

 w-as very deep juff. below the fall, owing to 

 its hollowing the rock out by the fall. In 

 every place where we met with rocks in the 

 river, we found the water very deep, 

 from two to four fathoms and upwards ; 

 becaufe by finding a refinance it had 

 worked a deeper channel into the 

 ground. Above the fall, the river is very 

 deep again, the water Hides along iilently, 

 and increafes fuddenly near the fhores. On 

 both fides till you come to Fort Ni- 

 cholfon, the more is covered with tall 

 T 2 trees. 



