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very high mountains, must undoubtedly hav^ beea 

 produced by some mighty convulsion of nature. The 

 tide flows a few miles above Albany, which is 160 

 miles from New York. It is navigable for sloops of 

 80 tons to Albany, and for ships to Hudson, Ship 

 navigation to Albany is interrupted by a number of 

 islands, six or eight»miles below the city, called the 

 Overslaugh. It is in contemplation to confine the 

 river to one channel, by which means the channel 

 Tvill be deepened, and the difficulty of approaching 

 Albany with vessels of a large size be removed. 

 About sixty miles above New York the water be- 

 comes fresh. The river is stored with a variety of 

 fish, which renders a summer passage to Albany de- 

 lightful, and amusing to those who are fond of 

 angling.* 



In the Hudson the impulse of the ocean is so pow- 

 erful as to make the tide progress upwards" at the 

 rate of about twenty-five miles an hour. Hence a 

 swift sailing vessel, starting from New York at 

 young fiood, with a fair and strong wind, may carry 

 the flood tide with her quite through to Albany. 

 This, it is said, has been repeatedly {performed. 

 The vessel in this case going at the rate of per- 

 haps fifteen miles an hour, will so far keep pace 

 "with the progress of the young flood as to make good 

 her arrival before the tide, after high water, shall run 

 ebb. 



A consequence of this superior oceanic influence 

 is, that a vessel can sail into the river more rapidly 

 than she ean come out. Though this sounds like a 



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