A league and half from Chenectedi, there is a house on the road which is a tavern. A
league and half farther on, that is to say half way, another house is met which is also a tavern.
Orange is situate on the right bank of the river Orange, otherwise called Hudson. It is not fortified on the forest side except by an enclosure of walls, or pickets, without a ditch, which is flanked at certain distances ; the river defends the entrance on the other side.
It is calculated
than the enclosure of the town of Montreal. In the interior of Orange there is a citadel, capable of containing 300 men; here are some cannon.
to
be smaller
fort,
a sort of
This is all that relates to the Right bank of the Mohawk river. Let us pass to the left bank, which is the North side of
that river, departing likewise from near its source at Fort Williams, [Rome.]
Leaving Fort Williams by the left bank of the river Mohawk, the village of the Palatines is estimated to be 12 leagues. The Mohawk river is fordable near Fort Williams whence a path leads to the interior, half a league from the shore, parallel with the river whose borders are so marshy that
nothing but hay can be had there.
This path leads over
hills
and small mountains and can be traveled only afoot or on horseback.
Eight leagues must be traversed by this path before reaching the forks of the high road that comes