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Right, the fruit trees around them, the de- -scending green meadows before their doors and the River which was in full view, rend- -red them desirable their situation very en- -chanting. We now pursued our Coarse down the River having it at times in view, to Quemanstown 15 miles, where we got a good Breakfast, a few miles on this side Al- -bany, the land was a Stony Gravel, with a hard Clay; then sandy; the Whole of the way poor; thinly settled; and buildings mean; mostly a pitchpine Timber, --- Thence to Catskill 18 miles; the first 3 or 4 rough and stony; then 8 or 10 miles through an Old Settled Country; pretty level fields; without pasture, meadows very light, Wheat, Rye, Cheat, and some Cackle, mixed toga- -ther made their Winter Crop; the land a stiff Clay, in dry Weather it bakes very hard; the Remainder of this stage full of Limestone ridges, and so stony as not to be arable Arable Catskill a large stream with a very Rocky bottom; from thence to Pear- -sons a Dutch Tavern where we lodged 12½ miles. In about two miles we crossed the Katters-kill on a high Bridge, Just below which there was a remarkable fall of