A wilderness changed, in so few years, to the comfortable residence of a numerous body of industrious people, who enjoy the comforts and conveniences of life in a degree superior to most parts of the United States, affords matter of curiosity to the intelligent traveller, and many respectable characters undertake the journey from no other motive. To them, therefore, it must be highly gratifying to find entertainment and accommodation equal to any thing of the kind in America. Very few places of the size now exceed Geneva, either as to the stile of the buildings, tbp beauty of the adjoining country, or valuable improvements.

The number of sail-boats have greatly increased on the lake, and the sloop finds constant employment : and, in addition to their comforts, a person from Scotland has established, at Geneva, a very respectable brewery, which promises to destroy in the neighbourhood, the baneful use of spirituous liquors. The apple and

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peach' orchards, left by the Indians, yield every year abundance of fruit, for the use of the inhabitants, besides making considerable cyder ; so much so, that one farmer near Geneva sold cydei, Ibis year, to the amount of one thousand two hundred dollars.

So respectable are these estabUshments in this western country, that any one of them would be sufficient to give a stranger a high opinion of its progressive state : but the traveller of observation cannot fail to be highly gratified to find, on passing the counties of Ontario and Steuben, at least twenty respectable and distinct settlements, each under the direction of some enterprising man, whose greatest ambition, and that of his fellow settlers, is to distinguish their settlement above the others. Water, in the town of Geneva, is brought, in pipes, from a remarkable spring, at the distance of a mile and a half, so that each house is plentifully supplied at the door ; and a number of farmers in the adjoining country bring water into their farm-yards and kitchens.