. Wit bought, or, A New York boy's adventures when the empire state was young . p roofs, and of a dingy colour: somewere built of tiles, some of rough stones,some of wood, and some of brick. It was,altogether, one of the most disagreeablelooking places I ever saw. We remained there but a few hours. Pro-ceeding on our journey, we soon reachedSchenectady, which we found to be a poor,ill-built, Dutch village, though it is a hand-some town now. We set out early the next morning, andby dint of plodding steadily on through mudand mire, we at last reached the town ofUtica, having been fourteen days i
. Wit bought, or, A New York boy's adventures when the empire state was young . p roofs, and of a dingy colour: somewere built of tiles, some of rough stones,some of wood, and some of brick. It was,altogether, one of the most disagreeablelooking places I ever saw. We remained there but a few hours. Pro-ceeding on our journey, we soon reachedSchenectady, which we found to be a poor,ill-built, Dutch village, though it is a hand-some town now. We set out early the next morning, andby dint of plodding steadily on through mudand mire, we at last reached the town ofUtica, having been fourteen days in perform-ing the journey from Salem. We found theplace to contain about a thousand people, allthe houses being of wood, and most of thembuilt of logs. The town, however, had abustling and thriving appearance, notwith- INDIANS. 95 standing that the stumps of the forest werestill standing: in the streets. C7 I noticed a great many Indians about thetown, and soon learned that they consisted ofthe famous tribes called the Six of these are still left in the State of. New York, but they have dwindled down toa very small number. At the time of myjourney, they consisted of several thousands,and were still a formidable race. They wereat peace with the white people, and seemed 96 WIT BOUGHT. > to behold their hunting-grounds turned intomeadows and wheat fields, with a kind ofsullen and despairing submission. One of the first settlers in this vicinitywas Judge W., who established himself atWhitestown, about four miles from took place about a dozen years beforemy visit. He brought his family with him,among whom was a widowed daughter withan only child—a fine boy of four years will recollect that the country aroundwas an unbroken forest, and that this wasthe domain of the savage tribes. Judge W. saw the necessity of keepingon good terms with the Indians, for as hewas nearly alone, he was completely in theirpower. Accordingly he took every oppor-tunity t
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