Tlie people are not allowed to take them with seins, but stabs. This river is peculiar. Y© banks, for miles, are almost perpendicular -- and are from 50 to 150 feet above the water. It is very rapid, and rocky. It arises from a pond in which ye salmon spawn. This part of the town is on high lands; yet y^ ascent is so gradual as hardly to be perceivable. We are now in sight of the Oneida lake.

The sea shells, petrified into stones, are very thick on this land. Face of ye country very pleasant. Crops of corn, oats, and grass, equal if not superior to any I have seen. Water pure. It is, in fact, a noble country, and needs nothing but clearing to make it a fruitful garden. However strange it may" appear, yet it is a fact, goods of all kinds are cheaper here than in y^ county of Hampshire. Salt is 716 -- or by y® barrel 6|.

Rome, Wednesday, 18^'', at Esq^ Hathaway's. This is a pleasant village, upon tlie banks of the Mohawk. The old Fort Stanwix stands about 30 rods from y^ river. It is regularly built : the intrenchment is very deep. In the centre of the fort stands the old block house. This can better be described by mf drawing.

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It is a very great singularity, that the waters of the MohaAvk and those of Wood Creek, which run in opposite directions, should liere come within a mile of each other -- and should admit of a communication by water through canals. This communication is of incalculable benefit to this part of the world. Produce may be sent both ways. Sunday, after meeting, took tea at Pease's. -- He appears to be a man of business, and is gaining property.