Kirkland's notes ; but whenever the service is over, they wrap themselves in their blankets, and either stand like cattle on the sunny side of a house, or lie before a fire. This is their mode of passing life : even the bold energy of their forefathers, which was conspicuous in the chace, is unstrung in their descendants, and instead of sliding to the grave " like a shock of corn in its full ear," they become ripe for it in youth and often find it by the most disgraceful means.

WESTERN NEW- YORK. 1111

THE GENESEE COUNTRY.

An Account of the Soil, Growing Timber, and other productions of the lands in the eountries situated in the back parts of the states of New-York and Pennsylvania, in North America ; and particularly the lands in the county of Ontario, known by the name of The Genesee Tract, lately located, and now in the progress of being settled.

[Imlay's Topog. Descrip. of the Western Territory of N. America.]

The lands generally known by the name of the Genesee tract, are situated in the back parts of the state of New- York and contain upwards of 2,000,000 of acres, mostly good arable land, forming nearly an oblong square of 80 miles in length from south to north, and 42 miles wide from east to west.

These lands were granted to Messrs. Gorham and Phelps, the original purchasers from the state of Massachussets, in the year 1788. And this grant was afterwards confirmed by the six nations of Indians, who, on receiving a valuable consideration, alienated, the whole of this property, and soon after these nations removed themselves and famiUes to a distant country.