But above all the extended society of white inhabitants, amounting to upwards of 6000 persons,! already established hi this new country, half of whom may be presumed able to bear arms, gives the most perfect security to the settlers, and the more especially as their numbers will daily increase.

With this increase will also be introduce'd, in a greater degree every year, public schools and other seminaries of learning for the education of youth of both sexes, as well as places of pubhc worship. Some churches and chapels are already built in this new country ; and the latest advices state that the rev. Mr. Ross was to estabhsh an academy for the education of youth, in the

•The Genesee lands are nearly 800 miles from the Kentucky lands, and are by that means distanlly seated from the present war with the Indians (1793). -- Edit.

f This number is almost doubled, and last year upwards of 500 Germans wenj from Hamburgh, &c., for the purpose of improving the lands, and were to be embodied as militia.-- Edit.

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county town of Cannandarqua, of the spring or summer 1791.

To these improvements in civil society are added, courts of justice, and public magistrates ; and judges for the new county of Ontario ; where court-houses, and other public buildings, are either erected or in progress, so as to extend to the inhabitants the same civil and political privileges, in well-executed laws, and in sending representatives to congress and to the assembly, which .are enjoyed by other citizens of America.