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Albany sloop to Chiua, puzzling the Orientals to arrive at her nautical 

 measurement, which diflBculty they, however, overcame by placing a 

 stick at the stern to represent a mainmast. Over the fate of the 

 nomenclature obliterated, there can be only grief. It is not the 

 province of this report to express the proper degree of contempt on the 

 servile imitations of the metropolis that have taken their place. 



Your committee mention with profound respect and admiration the 

 care taken by the venerable (North) Dutch Church of its precious 

 ancient communion plate, two of whose beakers go back to a time so 

 remote as that near the occurrence of the great fire of London, one, 

 in its date, preceding that event by two years. 



They have seen with much satisfaction and due honor the efforts so 

 successfully made in other portions of the State to perpetuate history. 

 The city of Elmira is honored by its interesting monument, in good 

 taste, and not burdensome cost, of the decisive battle which, in the 

 Sullivan campaign of 1779, ended the Iroquois power. The ^'ormer 

 occupation of their village by the Senecas has, by the intelligent 

 action of the people of Waterloo, been commemorated by a stone 

 pillar. These things interpret refinement and educate the people. 

 How many of the localities of the State have to this day neglected 

 their historical duty! But. while we thus reproach them for being 

 faithless to their archaeology, let us penitently admit that our cen- 

 sure will be more appropriate when Albany itself has done its duty. 



Our respected neighbor, the city of Schenectady, has a university 

 whose success is gratifying to us — has an historical scholar in whose 

 honor we speak, but it is sadly faithless to its most interesting his- 

 tory. It has no monument of the great raid of 1690, whose narrative 

 was the theme of interest across the great sea — it has no 'memorial 

 of Qorlaer, who, going out of Albany to find the still more remote 

 frontier settlement, by his sagacity and estimable qualities so won the 

 heart of the savages that thereafter they gave his name as the equiva- 

 lent of Governor, and he died while en route to Montreal, where his 

 excellence had won him an invitation from the French ruler. 



Hudson is, by its name, a remembrance of the navigator who dis- 

 closed the noble river, and is content with such easy remembrance. 



Utica has an historical society, and, creditably to itself, publishes 

 its transactions, but where is its memorial of the site of Fort 

 Schuyler ? 



Rome is a city, but has it made enduring monumental record of 

 Fort Stanwix, the place of war and treaty ? 



In Little Falls there is yet a most interesting relic of a portion of 



