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

negroes and other domestics. river side ;

passes there.

A small rivulet coming from the north empties itself into the Mohawk river, about

200 paces below the enclosure of the yard.

On this stream there is a Mill about 50 paces distance

where grain and flour are stored, and on the which cattle and fodder are kept. One hundred and fifty paces from Colonel Johnson's Mansion at the North side, on the left bank of the little creek, is a little hill on which is a small house with port holes where is ordinarily kept a guard of honour of some twenty men, which serves also as an advanced post. From Colonel Johnson's house to Chenectedi is counted seven leagues the road is good all sorts of vehicles pass over it. About twenty houses are found from point to point on this road. The Mohawk river can be forded during summer, a league and a quarter west of Chenectedi. Opposite Chenectedi the traverse is usually in a ferry boat and batteaux. The inhabitants of this country are Dutchmen. They form a Company of about 100 men with those on the opposite side of the river below Fort Hunter. Going from Chenectedi to the mouth of the Mohawk river where it discharges into that of Orange, there is a Great Fall (Cohoes) which prevents the passage of batteaus, so that every thing on the from the house ; below the Mill