" The market for grain and provision raised in the Genesee country will be on the spot for some time to come, and the constant influx of setlers, who may be expected, until the whole of these lands are occupied, will, at least for a time, consume all the surplus produce ; afterwards the city of Philadelphia will probably be the best market ; and while the country is in the progress of being settled, the hemp and flax raised by the Genesee farmers, and also the ashes and sugar made upon these lands, and the skins and furs procured by hunting, must ultimately go to Philadelphia and New- York ; but this will be the business of the merchant, who v/ill receive all these articles from the farmer in return for dry goods, implements of husbandry, salt and rum, and such othei articles as the settlers may want."

WESTERN NEW- YORK. • 1119

It is the constant practice in America, for small traders to establish what is called flying stores, for the sale of goods wherever new settlements are made. And already there are actually such merchants established in the Genesee country, at the county town of Canandraqua, at the north end of the lake of that name, where all kind of produce is bought and sold by the merchants already settled there.

Wheat is at present, 1791, one dollar per bushel (4s 6d sterling;) Indian corn, 2s 6d, ditto; salt, from the Onondago works, 60 miles east of the grant, is half a dollar a bushel, in time it will be cheaper.