of improvements, you 8 miles; and where the road or
pathway turned off for New Stockbridge

, we very opportunely met with
a drunken Indian, who acknowledged us for Brothers
with a very good will, and undertook to guide us thro'
the thick woods with which this Settlement is surround.
We came to the first houses near night, where the
Young Men where drawn up in Indian stile, stooting
at a mark, and Men Women an Children looking
on received us with stoical indifference. The
main Settlement being 3 miles further we invited
ourselves in, asked for supper, and merrily
helped ourselves, with wooden ladles, and pewter spoons,
out of a large dish of milk and cold mush baked
almost to the consistency of bread. This done we
made our beds upon the floor, and slept till the pigs
roused us, in the morning, by grunting about us with
all the familiarity of messmates, impatient for breakfast.Continue at the bottom of the 5th pa.
20 or 30 miles from Schenectady, passed by the old Mansion House
of Sir William Johnson, remarkable for being flanked with
wings, one of which has an arched roof. The famous Hall