thickly settled near the river with
many good buildings, more particu-
larly on the south side. The latter
part of this stage, the mountains,
or high rocky hills, crowded near
to the river, so that in places
there was scarcely room for a road
lodged at Connelly’s 17m 41 miles
peas are very commonly sown in
this northern country, from Canada
to this place 3,4; or more acres in
a lot; they are used to feed horses,
fatten swine & c. the bottoms on the
Mohock contain a large quantity
of them. Spring crops of all sorts
on this river & for many miles
further west, I have observ’d to be
much hurt with a yellow blossom’d
weed, it has the appearance of mus-
tard, tho’ much smaller, it grows