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John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796

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Entertainment and Attendance excited Admiration, being equal, especially in the Womans de-partment, to almost any thing in that way, in the City of Philadelphia: This is a Smart Town containing, as they say, about 600 Houses many of them good Buildings: from here the Mohawk is boatable upwards of 100 Miles; but the Navigation is so extremely difficult, by reason of Shoal Water and Rapids, that, if the Roads were good, Land Carriage would be preferable: Between here and the North River is a large falls, which occasions a