But above all, the uncommon benefits these lands derive from the vicinity to the thick settled countries in New-York and New-England governments on the one hand, and Northumberland county in Pennsylvania on the other, from all which quarters, from the great advantages that are held out, there must be an overflow of emigrants every year, until these lands are fully settled : which expectation is already completely evinced, from the rapid population that has taken place on the east boundaries of the grant upon the Tioga river, and between the Seneca and Cayuga lakes, up to lake Ontario,* where, in the course of three or four years, above 800 families have fixed themselves in this fertile country, most of \vhom having emigrated from the eastern states of New-England, New-York and Pennsylvania, have all the advantages which are to be derived from a perfect knowledge of the country, and from that kind of education and local resource, which soon renders the situation of a new settler comfortable and happy, enabling them, at the same time, to assist new comers, who may be less acquainted with the nature of the country. As a proof the estimation in which the Genesee lands are held by the neighbouring inhabitants, it is only necessary to slate the following facts, relative to the population soil, and produce Sc'-. which have been extracted from letters and public documents, upon which the utmost reliance can be placed The information is in these words: "There are already settled in this particular tract, upwards of lOOOf people, in dilferent townships, altiiough