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Show TRAVELS TH 0 Gil NORtH A1\1ERlCA: have either of th em for ]e(-; than fcv cnty o1J,lr , eqtt<ll to fi fteen guineas. We on m'r pat t a pol1tivdy rcfuft:d to em up y with a clctnan'l which ,..,.e h1 w to be exorbitant, and rcfolvcd to wnit patier tly in L\lbany for fomc other onvcpncc, r:1th r than fubmit to fuch an im pofition. Th . fCllows hLid ont for two 1bys, but at the end of that time one of them c;um: t tc1l u · we mi,n ht h.wc hiJ c.uri . ~'r C for h.llf the 1)ricc, and ac-cordi n.!.!;ly w · tC'ol' it. Early the nc,· t n orning vvc fd oft~ and in about two hours arrived at the [mall ' i !age of C ohoz, clofc to which is the rcn1:trkabk [J.11 in the JVIohawk Piver. 'This river take. its rife t the north-caft of Lake Oneida, and after a courfc of one hundred and forty mile~ , difcmbog11CS into the Hudfon or North River, abont ten miks ~lbovc Albany. The Coho:;.; h1l1 i about three miles difbnt from its month. The breadth of th · river i · three hundred yards; a ledge of rocks extends <1_uite ac ro[c;, and from the t p of them the water falls about fifty feet perpend icular; the lir c of the fall from one fide of the river to the oth ·r is nc.uly firaight . 1 he appc<lrance of this fall varies very much, according to the ·quantity of water; when the river is full, the water ddccnds in an unbroken fhcct from one bank to the other, wbil{l: at other tim s t1 e gre:-t tcr part of the rocks arc left uncovered. The rocks arc of a remarkable d,uk colour, and fo alfo is the earth in the banks, which rift: to a gn.:at height on either fide. There is a v ry plcafing view of th i catarad as you1MC over the bridg <'l.crofs the riv<.:r, about three quarters of a mile low T down. From hence we proceeclcd along the banh f the Iludfon River, thr ugh the town of Stillwater, which receives its name from the uncommon fiilln cfs of the river oppofite to it, and btc ·n the evening reachetl Sarato~a, tHi rty-five mi es fron Albany. 'This place contains about forty hou{cs, and a Dutch reformed church, I ,,t they are fo fcattcrcd about that it has not th · fmalld\: appearanu; dt u town. In this neighbourhood, upon the bo ·ucrs t .l mar11;, ;-tn.: (evcral very r 1 :ukable mi11oral fpnngs; one of lh 'Ill , it~ dlc ,·atcr of a rock, of. pyramidical form, al out fiver~ et in ht:lgln, L partJCLllJrly curious. This ro(;k feems to 1 av~.: hen fOrm<.: by th~.: petrif.tLt.on of the water: all |