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. These conveniences show the comfort in which they live.

A new settlement was this year begun on the west side of the falls of the Genesee River, about ninp miles from Lake Ontario, and at no great distance from the mills already built. Several of these settlers, being from the sea-coast of New England, particularly a Mr. Granger, turned- their attention to the navigation of the lake, and its communication with the Genesee River. The navigation of the river is here intercepted by four successive magnificent falls, the highest of them ninety six feet : around these falls a carrymg place was made, and the inhabitants on the Genesee River now receive their salt from the Onondaga salt works, and their stores from Albany, with a very trifling land carriage compared with what they were necessitated to undertake from Geneva. The opening of this navigation has also furnished them with a ready water communication for their surplus produce. Mr. Granger, last winter, built a schooner of forty tons, which was launched early in April : before the middle of May she made a trip to Niagara, with two hundred barrels of provisions, and there w^ere then laying on the beach two hundred barrels more, ready to be put. on board on her return.