put carts across when the river is high. After fording Canada Creek, we continue along the left bank of the Mohawk river and high road

which is passable for carts for 12 leagues to Col Johnson's mansion. In the whole of this distance About 500 houses are erected, at a distance one from the other. The greatest number of those on the bank of the river are built of stone. Those at a greater distance from the the soil is very good.

river in the interior are about half a league off ; they are new Settlements, built of wood.

There

not a fort in the whole of this distance of 12 leagues; There is but one farmer's house

is

built of stone that is somewhat fortified and surrounded with pickets.

It is situate

on the bank of

the river three leagues from where the Canada Creek empties into the Mohawk river.

The inhabitants of this Country are Germans.

They form four companies of 100 men each. bank of the River Mohawk it is three

Col. Johnson's mansion is situate on the border of the left

;

stories high ; built of stone, with port holes (crenelees) and a parapet and flanked with four bastions

on which are some small guns.

In the same yard, on both sides of the Mansion, there are two small

houses; that on the right of the entrance in a Store, and that on the left

is designed for workmen, The yard gate is a heavy swing gate well ironed; it is on the Mohawk from this gate to the river there is about 200 paces of level ground. The high road