Late frosts in the spring, and early ones in the fall, are nncommon, and there is scarcely an instance of the fruit or corn suffering by them. The peach trees, the great test of a climate free from severe and late spring frosts, come to great perfection ; in one orchard, at an old Indian town near Geneva, the occupier of the farm sold, last year, to a neighboring distillery, one hundred bushels of peaches.

In the winters of ]796 and 1797, two gentlemen kept regular diaries of the weather, the one at Bath in Steuben county, the other at Lancaster in Pennsylvania, the result was, that at Lancaster the cold was greater than at Bath, from 11° to 13° during the winter ; but the spring commenced ten days later. If more proof was necessary to establish this important fact : viz. thp moderation of the climate, it might be stated, that the settlers have, m many parts of the country, been in the custom of turning into the woods part of their cattle before winter, at a distance from their farms and they have been found, in every instance, in good order, and with less loss than might be expected from the same number of cattle if kept about the houses. The frosts have never been so severe as to stop the operation of the mills, provided very trifling precaution is used. So remarkable was this circumsiance in 1797, that a number of sleds came from Pensylvania to the Bath mills, a distance of seventy miles. Except in shallow places the lakes never freeze : and the navigation of the Seneca Lake has not been impeded since the settlement of the country. This wiil appear the more remarkable, when, frequently within that p-riod