" It is in contemplation at present to make a water communication between the Susquehanhah and the Schuylkill,* which if eri'ected, will lay open the market of Philadelphia for the reception of the produce of all the Genesee country. ■ And as the soil and climate are supposed to be the best in the world for raising large and productive crops of hemp, flax, Indian corn, wheat, rye, barley, oats, buck-wheat, peas, beans, and every other species of grain produced in North America, much benefit will be derived to the settlers, by every improvement which can be made in facilitating carriage by inland navigation.

" At present wheat can be sent from the Genesee Settlements to Philadelphia, at one shilling sterling per bushel ; but if the water communication be opened between the two rivers, the cost will not exceed four pence.

'• Dry goods can now be sent to these new settlements at about eight shillings sterling per hundred w^eight, which will probably be reduced to three shillings when the navigation is completed.

" No country in the world is better adapted for raising cattle than the Genesee grant. One of the first settlers in that country asserts that he can every season cut wild grass, on his own farm in the Genesee flats sufficient to maintain 2000 head of cattle through the winter ; and that such hay, with rushes and vegetables

6. Newtown, a beautiful village on the eastern forks of the Tioga river (supposed) 100

7. Cheeming town, three miles below New-town, 50