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be-forced to give-whatever price they asked, 
positively refused to let us have either of them 
for less than seventy dollars, equal to fifteen 
guineas. We on our part as positively refused 
to comply with a demand which we knew to be 
exorbitant, and resolved to wait patiently in 
Albany for some other conveyance, rather than 
submit to such an imposition. The fellows 
held out for two days, b ut at the end of that time, 
one of them came to tell us we might have 
his carriage for half the price, and accordingly 
we took it. 
Early the next morning we set off, and in 
about two hours arrived at the small village of 
Cohoz, close to which is the remarkable Fall 
in the Mohawk River. This river takes its 
rise to the north-east of Lake Oneida, and 
after a course of one hundred and forty miles, 
disembogues in the Hudson or North River, 
about ten miles above Albany. 'The Cohoz 
Fall is about three miles distant from its mouth. 
The breadth of the river is three hundred, 
yards; a ledge "of rocks extends quite across, 
and from the top of them the water falls about 
fifty feet perpendicular; the line of the Fall 
from one side of the river to the other is 
nearly straight. The appearance of this Fall 
Varies very much, according to the quantity of 
water when the river is full, the water de¬ 
scends in an unbroken sheet from one bank 
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