I went first to Albany, from thence to Schenectada, about Sixteen miles ; this has been a very considerable place of trade, but is now falling to decay : It was supported by the Indian traders ; but this business is so arrested by traders far in the. country, that very little of it reached so far down : it Stands upon the Mohawk river, about 9 miles above the Falls, called the Cohoes ; but this I take to be the Indian name for Falls : Its chief business is to receive the merchandize from Albany, and put it into batteaux, to go up the river, and forward to Albany Such produce of the back country as is sent to market. After leaving Schenectada, I travelled over a most beautiful country of eighty miles to Fort Schuyler, where I forded the Mohawk : This extent was the scene of British and Savage cruelty, during the late war, and they did not cease, while anything remained to destroy. What a contrast now ! every house and barn rebuilt, the pastures crowded with cattle. Sheep, &c. and the lap of Ceres full. Most of the land on each Side of the Mohawk river, is a rich flat highly cultivated with every species of grain, the land on each side the flats, rising in agreeable Slopes ; this, added to the view of a fme river passing through the whole, gives the beholder the most pleasing Sensations imaginable.

I passed next through Whitestown. It would appear to you, my friend, on hearing the relation of events in the vrestern country, that the whole was fable ; and if you were placed in Whitestown, or Clinton, ten miles west from Fort Schuyler, and see the progress of improvement, you would believe it enchanted ground.