These mills are intended as a depository for all grain taken in this part of the country, in payment for lands sold, where it can either be manufactured into flour, or distilled, as may answer best for sale to the new-comers^ or for exports to Canada or Albany. One floor of the mills will be solely appropriated for the use of the merchants residing in the adjacent country, who may sell their merchandize for wheat delivered at the mills, and pay storage for the advantage they derive. Mills of this kind, in countries where such vast crops of grain may be raised, are highly useful to the farmer, the merchant, and the great land-holder. On the north side of Geneva, about the same distance as Hopetown, a set of mills, on a similar plan, were built this season. These last are situated on a very important navigation, the outlet of the Canadarqua Lake, near its junction with Mud Creek, both of which are very considerable streams, and run through a great extent of rich country already well settled. In the settlement of Mud Creek alone, there were for sale, last fall, not less than ten thousand bushels of wheat, of an excellent quality. From the junction of the two rivers. Mud Creek affords good navigation for boats of four or five tons at least, twenty miles ; and the navigation downwards for boats of ten tons, is good to Schenectady sixteen miles only from Albany. The settlements in this part of the country derive great advantage from the Western canals, which the State has patronized at much expense. On the bank of Mud Creek, near the junction of the two streams, is laid out the village of Lyons, so called from the similarity of its situation to the city of that name in France.