This year a printing-office was established in the town of Bath, and a newspaper printed, entitled, "The Bath Gazette." The county of Ontario having several years the start in settlement, and the advantage of many Indian clearings of great extent, had already the comfortable appearance of an old settled country: the old Indian orchards had been dressed up, and the fruit secured from depredation. Fruit was in such abundance, that one farmer, near Geneva, made, this year, one hundred barrels of cyder.

The town of Canadarqua, from consisting of a few straggling huts, as described in 1792, had now assumed the appearance of a very handsome village : a court-house and goal were already built ; and an academy founded on a subscription of thirty thousand dollars was now building- The whole adjacent country was

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rapidly settling with a most respectable yeomanry, but particularly that part lying between Canadarqua and the Genesee River. This tract of country, 'kbout six miles from north to south, and twenty seven from east to west, for well cultivated farms, a thick population, and respectable inhabitants , may already vie with any part of the United States.*

In this year (1796) the town of Geneva received a great addition by the laying out a street on the summit of a rising ground, along the west bank of the lake. At the south termination of the street a handsome country house was begun, and finished the year following; and in the corner of the square, a large and convenient house, for a tavern and hotel besides, many other large and well finished houses. About this time a sloop of forty tons, burden, was put on the stocks, intended, when finished, to run as a packet between Geneva and Catherine's Town, a small village at the head of the lake, about forty-four miles distant from Geneva.