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fcenery of the fort, form a convenient prome- 

 nade, for horfe and foot, and remove the dull 

 folitude of the garrifon, by eftablifhing a more 

 ready intercourfe with the capital. J 



The town is yet in embryo. According 

 to a plan formed for its conftru&ion it is to be 

 built upon the angle, or peninfula, between the 

 rivers Berbifche and Kannye, extending along 

 the bank of the former. The land on which it 

 is to beere&ed is in part cleared of its wood 5 

 and divided into lots ready for building ; but, 

 at prefent, only here and there a fcattered houfe 

 is to be feen. Beyond the prepared land, and 

 not half a mile from the Government houfe^ 

 the wild foreft ftill overhangs the river 

 Kannye ; but thofe powerful engines the de- 

 ftru&ive axe and all-fubduing fire are now' 

 directed againft it, and confequently it cannot 

 long remain — a foreft. 



The whole fcenery at New Amfterdam, 

 as well as at Fort William Frederic, betrays the 

 infant ftate of the colony. The drearinefs of 

 the land, juft robbed of its thick woods — the 

 nakednefs that prevails around the Govern- 

 ment houfe— the want of roads and paths — i 



