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Show 62 N E W Y 0 R K. lodge, library, chapel, hall, &c. but as foon as the whole £hall be completed, there will be proper apartments for each of thefe offices. The name of it is King's College. . . There are two churches in New York, the old, or Tnmty Church, and the new one, or St. George's C~apel ; bot~ of them large buildings, the former in the Gothtc tafl:e, wtth a fpire, the other upon the model of fome of the new churches in London. Befides thefe, there are feveral other places of relio-ious wodhip; namely, two Low Dutch Calvinift churches, oneb High Dutch ditto, one French ditto, one German Lutheran church, one preibyterian meeting-houfe, one quakers ditto, one anabaptill:s do, one Moravian ditto, and a Jews fynagogue. There is a1fo a very handfome charity-fchool for fixty poor boys and girls, a good work-houfe: barracks for a regiment of foldiers, and one of the finefl: pnfons I have ever feen. The court or O:adt-houfe makes no great figure, but it is to be repaired and beautified. There is a quadrangular fort, capable of mounting fixty cannon, though at prefent there are, I believe, on1y thirty-two. Within this is the governor's palace, and underneath it a battery capable of mounting ninetyfour guns, and barracks for a company or two of foldiers. U pan one of the ifiands in the bay is an hofpital for fick and wounded feamen; and, upon another, a pefl:-houfe. Thefe are the moft noted public buildings in and about the city. The province of New York is iituated between the 4oth and 45th degrees of north latitude, and. about 75 degrees weft. longitude. It lies in a fine climate, and enjoys a very wholefame air. The foil of mofl: parts of it is extremely good, particularly of Long Uland: and it has the advantages of a fine harbour, and fine rivers. The bay has a communication with Newark bay, the Sound, Amboy river, and feveral others: it receives alfo Hudfon's or North nver, one of the largeft in North N E w- Y 0 ' R K. North Amer~ca, it being navigable for iloops as far as Albany, 176o. ah ve 150 miles : from w 1ence, by the Mohock, and other rive s, running through the country of the Six Nations, there is .a communication, (excepting a few lhort carrying places,) with lake Ontario; and another with the r.iver St. Laurence,_ through the lakes George, Champlain, and the river Sorel; fo that th is river feems to merit the greatefl: attention. Thefe wa-ters afford various kinds of filh, black filh, fea bafs, lheeps-heads,. rock-fifl1, lob!lers, and feveral others, all excellent in their kind. The province in its cu ltivated fl:ate affords grain of all forts, cattle, hogs, and great variety of Englilh fruits, particular] y the New-town pippin. It is divided into ten counties, and has fame few towns, but none of any fize, except Albany and Schenectady, the former of which is a very confiderable place. The number of inhabitants amounts to near 1oo,ooo; 15 or .2o,ooo of which are fuppofed to be capable of bearing arms, a-nd of [erving in the mili-tia; but I believe this number is exaggerated, as a confiderable part of the 1 oo,ooo are Negroes,. which are imported more frequently into this province than into Penfylvan ia. The people carry on an extenfive trade, and there are faid to be cleared out annually from New York, near ton of lhipping. They export chiefly grain, flour,. pork, fkins, fmrs, pig-icon, lumber, and ftaves. Their manufactures, indeed, are not extenfive, nor by any means to be compared with thofe of Penfylvania; they make a fmall quantity of cloth, fame linen, hats, lhoes, and other articles. for wearing appar.el. They make glafs al[o, and wampum; refine fugars, which they import from the Well: Indies ; and difiil onfiderable quantities of rum. T hey alfo, as well as the Penfylvanians, till both were refirained by act: of parliament, had ereCl:ed feveral flitting mills, to make nails, &c .. But this is now prohibited, and they are exceedingly difratisfied at |