Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III

Neither is the corn tended-- it is in general full of weeds and grass, and looks miserably. Rie is large. Flax does not appear to be good -- whether this is owing to the season or the soil, I know not. Pease appear to flouiish -- so do oats; but tlie soil, I believe, is too hard, and clayey for Potatoes-- they look very sickly.

I perceive, as yet, but one great defect in the morals of the people-- they are too much addicted to drink.

The back part of the County of Montgomery consists of some pine plains ; but in general the lumber is beach and maple. A good grass and wiieat country. Sacondaga creek heads in May field -- runs N. E. and empties into a branch of North river, about 20 or 30 miles above Halfmoon.

Ma7iheim, 8 miles from the Stone chh. in Palatine. This town is about 7 miles square. One Dutch Reformed chh. Vacant. M"^ Dysling supplies about half the time in this town and half in Palatine : a Swiss, and a good character, and a man of learning. Passing on from Manheim, we find the mountains drawing to a point, upon the 2 sides of the river. When we come to the river, there is only a narrow pass for about fths of a mile between the river and the foot of the rocks. When we come to the Falls the scene which presents is sublime. We now enter Plerkimer county-- and a small village of the town of Herkimer, called Little Falls, by which the canals pass, which were constructed in '95. The length of the canal is f'''^ of a mile. There are 6 locks. The appearance of the falls is sublime. The village is built upon a ledge of rock.