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up the fountain of every mental consolation; yea, even of hope itself. The Indian town I passed through is called Cannawagas. 11th Month, 28th. This day I passed through Batavia; and, near this place, met an Indian with his dog, driving a flock of sheep before him of about 30 or 40 in number. In the course of the day I met several hunting parties of Indians, and came to Vandeventer's Tavern in the evening; which I spent with one of the Holland Company's Surveyors. He and his companions had been oc- cupied in the woods, more than three months, and had not in all that time, slept in a house or on a bed. He was a young man of stability, very agreeable, and well informed. The tract of land they were surveying, was purchased by some per-sons in Holland, and is therefore called the Holland-land-Purchase. It consists of 3,500,000 acres, for which they paid at the rate of 1 1/2d. per acre. The principal proprietor is Shimmelpennick. This land they are now selling from 9s. to 27s. per acre, but purchasers may be accommodated with the money remaining at interest, provided they settle upon the purchase, and improve the land. By their books of surveys, I observed that they meted out the tract into divisions and ranges, which are numbered; a square of about 10 miles making