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.

At a future period, when population shall have rendered various markets necessary, the heavy articles raised on the northern part of the grant, will probably be transported to Quebeck, by the way of lake Ontario, Catoroqui, and Montreal ; and such articles as will bear land-carriage, by the way of the Mohawk river and New- York. As the crops are extremely uncertain in Canada, it is by no means improbable that this country must often be resorted to in order to supply the Canadians with bread.

It has been already mentioned, that the climate of this country is reckoned more mild in Winter, and less sultry in the summer, than the same latitudes nearer the atlantic ocean ; and as agriculture advances, and the country becomes more open, the climate will improve. At present it is extremely healthy, and none of those periodical disorders are known among the settlers which prevail in those parts of America which are nearer the sea such as intermitting fevers, agues and bilious complaints.