They said they had still one thousand five hundred miles to sail. What an extensive navigation !

You will find the Genesee Country abounding with situations both valuable to the farmer and amusing to the gentleman and man of leisure : but amongst the variety it affords, they must all yield to Sodus ; for fishing, fowling, sailing or hunting, this latter place stands unrivalled • and perhaps no place in America can equal it. Fish of various kinds, many of them from the ocean, can be had at pleasure ; and a species of soft-shelled green turtle* may be procured in plenty, little inferior to the green turtle brought from the West Indies. In the spring and fall, all sorts of waterfowl are innumerable in the bay. In the adjacent woods arc abundance of deer ; they may be easily drove by dogs into the bay, and the chace is continued by water greatly to the amusement of those who are fond of such sports. Strangers going to Sodus, will now find good accommodation, in a house built for the purpose; and they will find handsome sail-boats, and every apparatus necessary to accommodate the sportsman in pursuit of his amusement.

The lands about Sodus are a black sandy loam, very deep : a soil not very common in this country, but of an excellent quality for every species of cultivation : it aflbrds the finest gardens.f

In one of the creeks running into the bay there was, some time ao-o, discovered a fine body of chocolate marble, which has been found to bear a good polish, and the blocks suffieiently large for any sort of building ornament. On this Creek, now called Marble Creek, there are some excellent mill-seats, accessible to boats from the lake, which, as the settlement increases, will come into use.