" 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

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The settlements on the lands surrounding these towns, in a square of about SO miles, 5931

Total 6640

* 1793. This conmmunication is actually begun, and promises the greatest advantage to the Genesee lands. Edit.

WESTERN NEW-YORK. 1117

which arc found above the snow, generally keep the cattle fat without any expence. Hogs can also be reared in the woods at little or no expence to the farmer,

" As the distance from Philadelphia (between which and the Genesee lands a road was to be completed in 1791) is somewhat less by land than two hundred miles, there can be no difficulty in driving fat cattle and hogs to that market for sale: as they can transport themselves at a very small expence, and as the demand for provision increases every year, and a liberal price is given for beef and pork, there can be no doubt but the rearing of cattle and hogs, as well as horses, for sale, in the low countries, will soon becon:ie a great object of profit to the settlers, as the extensive ranges of meadow ground on the flats and the blue grass, white clover and pea vine in the woods, must enable the farmer to feed almost any nunrber he can raise, or iind capital to purchase *' In many parts of the tract there is little or no underwood, and excellent pasture in the forests between the trees, in consequence of their being in general of an enormous size, and of the considerable distance between them ; thereby aiibrding even a wide range for cattle in the upland country, as well as in the flats and meadows, which have already been represented to be luxuriant beyond description, in a species of coarse grass, very fit for hay.