In the neighborhood of these villages there is a district of country bounded by the Pennsylvania line on the south and the heads of the Seneca and Cayuga lakes on the north, and running east from the Genesee southern boundary to Owega creek, in which there are near 600 families settled. Between the Seneca and Cayuga lakes, and particularly to the eastward of the latter, the country is settling very fast, and so on along the east branch of the Susquehanna, to its source at lake Ocsega. It would be difficult to ascertain the present population of the lands adjoining the Genesee grant, but it may be safely concluded from the progression of settlements for two or three years past, that in the course of a very few years, the whole country to the eastward of the pre-emption line will be well and thickly inhabited* The New England settlers who have already

•An idea of the rapid population may be formed, from a detail of the towns and villages which have been built within the last three years, and which are now in a state of progressive increase, namely

1. The town of Cannandarqua, at the north end of the lake of that name, lying within the Genesee grant, and intended to be the head town of

the country of Ontario, 9!*

2. The Friends^ settlement at the outlet of the Crooked lake, 2(J0

S. The town of Geneva, at the north-west corner of the Seneca lake

(supposed to be) 100