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fruit trees in blossom. Vegetation appeared aboutas forward here as when I left home. It is an old settled country: the inhabitants mostly the descen-dants of Low Dutch emigrants, and generally, speak that language, also, tolerable English. They say it was settled before Schenectady or Albany; which must be more than one hundred and twenty years. One young woman told me, her father's great-grand-father was born on the place where she then lived. The banks of the river, in general, rise about twelve or fifteen feet above the surface of the water, and obscure, in a great measure, the pleasing prospect of its fruitful margin from travelers who go in boats. 10th. Our little fleet, consisting of eight boats, worked by thirty men, exclusive of twelve passen-gers, set out, and with great exertions, opposed therapids of the Mohawk for about sixteen miles, through a champaign country. Passed by many banks and points of land, memorable for having forts and for-tifications, in time of war; particularly the old resi-dence of Sir William Johnson, whose mansion house is now in ruins — the lands confiscated, and in pos-session of strangers. This estate was said to have been obtained from the Indians by chicanery. Such is the uncertainty of the most extensive worldly pos-sessions, more especially when obtained through un-righteous channels. This day we passed a rock pro-jecting out of the bank of the river, whereon was painted, with great ingenuity, in red colours, a ca-noe with the representation of seven men in it.-- Which is said to be done annually, by Indians, coming several hundred miles for that purpose, in order to commemorate the slaughter of seven In-dians, who went off from that neighbourhood in