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. You would there view an extensive well built town, surrounded by highly cultivated fields, which Spot in the year 17^3 was the

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" haunt of tribes" and the hiding place of wolves, now a flourishing happy Situation, containing about Six thousand people -- Clinton stands a little South of Whitestown, anil is a very large thriving town.

After passing Clinton, there are no inhabitants upon the road, until you reach Oneida, an Indian town, the first of the Six Nations; it contains about Five hundred and fifty inhabitants ; here I slept, and found the natives very friendly. The next day I Avent on to Onondaga, leaving the Oneida lake on the right, and the Onondaga lake on the left, each a few miles distant. I slept at Onondaga,

at the house of a Mr. , who is employed in boiling down the