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Show ...,l ..'. TI 1 \'ELc TIIROOGII NOR Til .L\MER IC A ~ g. · ·1 1 • • vef1c rn J"'arts of th {bte of 1b c fur more i hnn tcv~n m1 , ' , a no tnc \ _ . . . 1\l.dhchu.et,' of which it is tL·· c.lpital, c.m be iuppltcd w tth ccH_nmo - ditiec earn.e d nn tl1~ • ort I1] >'-.' vcr o,.1 111 uch bl'ttcr t~... t ms th<n tf. tlL: b• ene , • ••• r .... f ll t hy ]. . nd cart i.t•rc from Bofl:'Jn. N CJthcr coi1ltnOC!1tte~ \ h .. d . .: '· ' d•o . ·s Boflon incr ~a(c hy any means 1·1 1 t 11 c (;a . nc, p1·O } or t io• n '•l • t hc o h c r town<> \\hi ·h h~t\'C an C.Ctl'llfiVC trade with the f COple of th1.:: l>aCK fcttlc Jl1C ll tS'. 1• or tl\(.: j~unc c.u1fe ,..,·c do not fi nd th:1t any of the fea-po r_t or other to\ · 11~ in J~hodc IlhnJ aiHI Conpc(.l:,;ut :u-c incn.::afi ng ver_1 fafl ; on the contrary, N-ewpc,rt, t 11 e cap·t t.l 1 o [ t1 1 , f'1 ,1 tc of •P hode Ifhnd , and which has a h~ rhour that is bt~:tfkd or as be;ng Olle of thL hdl throUgh OUt t h~ Jn ikd St;:- t s, i~ now fc1lling to decay. New 10rt contains all')Ut one thouf.mLl hou(cs ; none of tiH~ other to\vns l..H.:twccn Boilon .wd N ew York contain more than five hund1 e,l. \ Ve now come to New York, which enjoys the doubk J.UV.l11 tagc.s of an excellent harbour and a brge navigabh.: river, which opens a comtnunication with the in terior 1 arts or the country ; ~tnJ h ere we fi1hl a fiouriG1ing city, containing forty thonGu1d -:+< inhabit,ln ts, anJ in creafwg~ beyond every c.llculation. ' he North or Iludfon River, at the mouth ot which New YorJ~ ftand s, is navigable fro1n thence for one hunlrcd an l thirty miles in large vcOds, an'l in floops of eighty tons burthcn as htr as Albany; fmaller ones go ilill higher. About nine miles above Alblny, the IVIohawk River .fi1lls into the !Iud!on, by means of which,\VoOll Creek, Lake Oneida, and Ofwcgo River, a communication is opened with Lake Ontario. In this route there arc fc..:veral portages, but it is a route which is much frequented, and nUtnbcrs of boats are kept employed upon it in carrying goods whenever the feafon is not too dry. In long droughts the waters fa!J fo rnuch that oftentimes there is not fu£1icicnt to float an empty boat. All thcfe obfl:rutlio11s however n1ay, and will one day or other, be remedied hy the hand of art. Ofwego river, before it falls into Lake Ontario, communicates with the Scncka river, which affords in fu ccdiion an entrance into the lakes Cayuga, Sencka, and Canadaqna. Lake Seneka, the l.lrgci1, is about forty 1n iles in length; • Six inhabitants may be reckoned for every houfe in tl1c '{,1 nitcd S ta tcs. upon V IE\iV OF TIIE TR A DING '1'0 \V N ' . . JJ l:pon it there is a fchooncr rigged vd1cl of fc \'enty ton burthc n confcantly ernp1oyc l. The fhores of thcfe lakes arc tl'tore thickly fcttlccl tlu n the other part of the adj acent coun try, but tl 1c popub tion of the whole tr.tck lying betwc.:cn the rivers ( ;encfce and I Iudfon, which an; 3 bout two hundred and fifty miles apart, is rapidly j ncreallJJg. All this country well of the IIudfon River, together with that to th cait, coinprchending the back pu.rts of the {btcs of Maflachufctts and Connecticut, and a]fo the entire of the fi ate of V crmont, are fu pplicd \.Yith Eurr> p~1n manufi1Cl:ures and Weft Indi,tn produce, &c. &c. by way of New York; not direClly frorn that city, but frotn Albany, IIudfon, and other towns on the North R.iver, which traue with New York, and whic.:h arc intermediate places for the dcpo!it of good'i palTing to, and coming frotn the back country. Albany, indeed, is now beginning hcrfelf to import goods ii·.otn the Wefi Indies; but fl:ill the bulk of her trade is with New York. Nothing can fervc rnore to 01cw the advantages which accrue to any town Ii-mn an intercourfe with the back country, than the fuddcn progrefs of thcfe fccondary pl.1ccs of trade upon the North River. At Albany, the number of houfcs is increaiing as faft as at New York; at prdcnt there are upwat·ds of eleven hundred; and in IIudfon city which was only laid out in the year 1783, there arl! }10W more than three hundred and twenty dwellings. This city is on. the eafl: fide of the North River, one hunured and thirty 1niles above its nwuth. By means ~Ho of the North River and Lake Champlain a trade is carried on with .LVlo1ltreal in Canada. But to go on with the furvey of the towns to the fouthward. In New Jt:rfey, we find Amboy, fituated at the head of Raritan Bay, a bay not inferior to any throughout the United States. The greatefl: encouragements alfo have been held out by the fiate legillature to merchants who would fettle there; but the town, notwithi1anding, remains nearly in the fiatc it w~s in at the tituc of the revolution: fixty houfes arc all that it contains. New Brunfwick, vvhich is built on Raritan River, about fifteen tnilcs above its entrance into the bay, carries on a iinall inland trade with the ndjacent country; but the principal part of New Jcrfcy is natnrally fup11lied with foreign 1nanuf:1ctures by New York on the one fide, and 11 l'}' |