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ticularly good. The slip of land in Hancock county, 

 lying between North and South Kingston on the east, 

 and Connecticut on the west, is excellent grazing 

 land, and very large cattle are raised there. Ex- 

 tensive dairies are also kept there, and on the islands 

 on the coast. The cheese made here is excellent, 

 and has often been mistaken for that of England by 

 good judges. 



Soil of Connecticut. 



Connecticut is. generally broken land, made up of 

 mountains, hills, and vallies ; and is exceedingly well 

 watered. Some small parts of it are thin and bar- 

 ren. It lies in the fifth and sixth northern climates, 

 and has a strong fertile soil, which is very well cal- 

 culated for pasture and mowing, and enables the 

 farmer to feed large numbers of cattle and horses. 

 Actual calculation has evinced, that any given quan- 

 tity of the best mowing land in Connecticut, produces 

 about twice as much clear profit as the same quan- 

 tity of the best wheat land in the state of New York. 



Soil of Mew York. 



Beyond the Alleghany mountains in New York, 

 the country is a dead level, of a fine rich soil, covered 

 with mapie, beach, birch, cherry, black walnut, lo- 

 cust, hickory, and mulberry trees. The country 

 west of VVhitestown is waving, and possesses a very 

 rich soil. The lands between the Seneca and Cay- 

 uga lakes are represented as very excellent. East of 

 the Alleghany the country is broken into hills with 

 rich intervening valiies. The best lands in the state, 

 which lie along the Mohawk ri\er, and north of it, 



