The land is tolerable -- some of it very good -- ^weU watered -- about 130 voters. -- Found on some of as high land as any in the town, rocks and stones containing sea shells petrified into stone, and forming parts of stones. This is another evidence that the Mohawk at the Little Falls was once obstructed by the rocks -- and yt the lands in this town were a part of a large lake Timber -- beech, maple, ash, birch, and bass.
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