During this season the country is delightfully beautiful, with' the whole fruit trees in bloom, as well as every shrub or vine which bears any wild fruit in the woods.

In June the weather begins to grow warm. In July and August it is occasionally sultry, with frequent thunder showers, which are succeeded immediately by fine serene weather, without the intervention of any settled rains. During this season the flies are very troublesome ; but this will be less and less the case as the country is cleared.

The months of September, October, and November, are delightfully pleasant. The mornings and evenings are sometimes foggy ; but the middle part of the day is clear and serene, without any rains to distress the farmer in saving his different crops, or to prevent him from reaping the full extent of the fruits of his industry.

The great variety of fruits and game also, at this season of the year, adds not a little to the pleasure and comfort of the settlers.

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But still these comforts are not to be acquired without industry and labour.

The Genesee country, making a part of the new county of Ontario, in the state of New-York, is consequently under the government of the congress of the United States, which government is perfectly free. Every inhabitant is eligible to be chosen a meiiaber of the legislative body, or to be appointed a public magistrate. Religious opinions exclude no man from any public situation in the government, and every sectary or society are at perfect liberty to exercise their own mode of worship, under the protection of the same laws which give the most perfect security to their property.