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10th Month, 29th. I spent this day pleasantly at Sunnyside, the residence of a relation, and went with him over his farm. He has purchased 300 acres of land, with a dwelling-house and barn, for 900l. sterling. The estate runs near a mile on the banks of a river, which is stored with plenty of fish, and which passes into the North River about five miles below. On the opposite side of the farm, there is a good turnpike-road, leaving to Hudson, &;c. About 100 acres are cleared from wood, and are in a state of cultivation; remaining 200 acres being wood land, are esteemed the most valuable. There are about 20 acres of meadow near the river. This land is very rich and productive; and the whole of the estate, if in many parts of Yorkshire, would be thought good and valuable land: inferior, I believe, is sometimes sold for 100l. per acre. 10th Month, 30th. This morning I walked to the residence of H. M. jun. near his mill on Claverick Creek. At this mill is a fall of about 30 feet, over one of the most rugged rocks I ever saw. In England the strata of rocks commonly lie horizontally, but here they are nearly perpen- dicular, forming many rugged points and pin-nacles, over which the water is thrown with no little foam and noise. After dining, and spending a few hours very pleasantly, we returned to Sun-nyside in the evening.