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a mile farther we came to a rippling, which 
carried us with prodigious fwiftnefs down the 
ftream, foon after we encountered a fecond, 
and a mile farther a third, very rough. In 
about an hour by the fun, after many other 
ripplings, we found our felves at the great fall, 
the whole breadth of the river which is above 
ioo yards wide and is eight or ten feet per- 
pendicular : here we hawled our canoe afhore, 
took out all our baggage, and carried it on our 
back a mile to a little town, of about four or 
five cabins ; they chiefly fubfift by catching 
fifh and affiifting the Albany people to hawl 
their Bateaus , and carry their goods round the 
falls ; which may be about ten or twelve poles, 
then they launch again into the river, and 
down the foaming ftream that furioufly on all 
fides dafhes one half againft the rocks, near a 
mile before they come to frill water, and in- 
deed, it runs pretty fwift all the way to Of- 
wego. Thefe Indians were very kind to us, 
and gave us boiled corn and water melons, 
while they and our guide who was a relation 
fat over againft us in the fame cabin, chewing 
raw Indian corn ftalks, fpitting out the fub- 
ftance after they fucked out the juice. But 
we could not yet underftand whether we were 
to go to the fort by land, or by water. In 
the morning they had catched fome ftout eels, 
and a . great fifh two feet long, it was round 
and thick, they ftrike them with long flender 
fhafts 
