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. The present mills are on a creek, west of the town, called

•This species of turtle weighs above 20 lb.

jit is ver3' common to see onions in gardens at Sotliis from fourteen to fifteen iaehas ia circumference, and from the seed not sowen above four months.

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Salmon Creek, and consist of one grist-mill and two saw mills. The only part of the Genesee country, that seemed, tmtii now to have escaped the general improvement, was that contiguous ^o the Genesee River, below Hartford or Canawagas : a set of ver^ good mills, however, had been built at the falls, and some settlers were to be found in that neighbourhood, on the fertile plains bj the side of Ihe river : but the idea of exposure to Indian depre dations on a frontier is always sufficient to prevent the man ot industry and property from settling. The luxuriance of the sou will not always tempt him. The moment, however, the western posts were given up to the United States, and this part of the country rendered safe, the industrious settlers turned their attention to the lands west of the river ; and they now bid fair to prove one of the best settlements in the western country.