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farms, which may be considered as the secretory 
organs, generating the produce and wealth of the 
state, 
A s we proceed then up the great artery of com¬ 
merce, the Hudson ; the first branch we come to 
on the west side, is from Newburgh to Cochecton, 
on the Delaware, which river there divides this 
state from Pennsylvania, This road it is under¬ 
stood, will be continued westward by that state, 
and will open the nearest and most convenient mar¬ 
ket on the Hudson, for the agricultural produce of 
the northeastern part thereof. From the Newburgh 
and Cochecton road, diverges the Newburgh and 
Chenango, in a northwestern direction, through the 
counties of Ulster and Delaware, across the Sus- 
quehannah river at Jericho, to Oxford, in the coun¬ 
ty of Chenango, where it communicates with other 
great roads leading to the western counties, as will 
appear in the sequel. 
The next great branches we come to, are, from 
Kingston to Jericho, in Chenango county, on the 
Susquehannah river ; from Kingston to the west 
branch of Delaware, in the town of Walton, and 
from Rochester, in Ulst^T county, to. Chenango, 
point. 
As we advance up the Hudson, we meet suc¬ 
cessively, the branches of turnpikes from Catskill 
to Wattles^ ferry, on the Susquehannah river; from 
