The superior quality of the timber, and the advantages of easy cultivation, in consequence of being generally free from underwood. 3. The abundance of grass for cattle in the woods, and on the extensive meadow grounds upon the lakes and rivers. 4. The vast quantities of the sugar maple-tree, in every part of the tract. .5. The great variety of other fine timber, such as oak, hiccoxy, black walnut, chesnut. ash of* different kinds, elm, butternut

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basswood, poplar, pines, and also, thorn trees of a prodigious size. 6. The variety of fruit-trees, and also smaller fruits, such as apple and peath orchards, in diiferent places, which were planted by the Indians, plum and cherry-trees, mulberries, grapes of different kinds, raspberries, huckle-berries, black-berries, wild goose-berries, aiiii straw-berries in vast quantities : -- also cranberries, and black haws, &:c. 7. The vast vaiiety of wild animals and game which is to be found in this coudlry, such as deer, moose deer, and elk of a very lartie size, beaA-ers, otters, martins, minxes, rabbits, squirrels, racoons, bears, wild-cats, &c., many of which furnish excellent furs ami peltry. 8. The great variety of birds for game, such as wild turkies, pheasants, partridges, pigeons, plovers, heathfowl, and indian hen, together with a vast variety of water-fowl on the rivers, and lakes, such as wild geese and ducks, of many different kinds, not known in Europe. 9. The uncommon abundance of very fine fish, with which the lakes and rivers, abound ; among which are to be found excellent salmon of tw'O different kinds, salmon-trout, of a very large size, white and yellow perch, siieep-heads, pike, succors, and eels of a very large size, with a variety of other fish in their different seasons. 10. The excellence of the climate in that region where these lands are situated, which is less severe in winter, and not so warm in summer, as the same latitudes nearer the sea. -- The total exemption from all periodical disorders, particularly the fever and ague, which does not prevail in the Genesee country, on account of the rising grounds and fine situations. 11.