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. Towards the close of the season almost all the new buildings were finished, and the sloop was launched. The circumstance of the sloop, however trifling in itself, was of sufficient importance to assemble several thousand people, and no circumstance having occurred to draw together the different settlements, the people composing them were not a little surprised to find themselves in a country containing so many inhabitants, and these so respectable. Natives of every state in the union, and of every nation of Europe, were to be found in the assemblage, all ambitious of the same object, the aggrandisement of the Genesee Country.

This season a printing office was established at Geneva, and a weekly gazette published, supported by eight hundred subscribers, who, before six months, increased to one thousand. Of the settlements begun this season, one was sixteen miles south from Genevaj on the outlet of the Crooked Lake, which here empties into the Seneca ;' a village, called Hopetown, was laid out on a rising ground adjacent to the creek, and within half a mile of the