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27th Upon further Consideration we felt most easy to return home down the Mohocks River, And about one OClock >we took an affectionate farewell of our frd s, having before taken leave of the Indians, and set off, and passed through a thick Woods much of it hemlock, for 7 or 8 miles, passed by wherein there were a few settlements, lately erected, but as we passed went on, improvment[s] became more plenty, so that in a few miles we got into a thick settled Country, with Large frame houses many of which were painted; and good frame Barns, such as would have been a Credit to an Old settled Country, with fields loaded with Clover and Timothy for Mowing, with some fields of Wheat, and a very good appearance of Corn, and other Spring Crop[s] in 17 miles we came to new Hartford, a smart Town, with containing a number of good hou- -ses, among which, was a large place of Wor- -ship, then to the River of Fort Schuylar 4 Miles, where we passed through another Town as large as Hartford, and the build- -ings good. here we crossed the River, which I thought was not much larger than