Hills near the railroad between Westfield and Chester village, and thereafter in Massachusetts, maybe as high or higher, but more sincere or less modish (?). Leafing in western Massachusetts more advanced; apple-trees greenish, red elderberry just beginning.
The comparison of the western hills seems to be with the smooth, rounded hills of eastern Massachusetts. He had seen them before, but not often.
14. Albany to Schenectady. Level,—in pine plains; white pine and white birch (shadbush in bloom), with hills at last. No houses, only two or three huts in edge of woods on our road. Mohawk at Schenectady; yellow stream, or clay-colored, bordered with willows and maples. Above Schenectady the Mohawk valley, more than half a mile wide,—low bank with interval each side, bounded by hills two hundred or three hundred feet high. On north side they begin to flat off at Palatine Bridge.
Most striking rough scenery at Little Falls. Pine uplands; country spreads out
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