Several of its branches atTord good navigation to the most westerly parts of the county. They may be navigated almost to their source, for five or^six months in the year, by boats carrying from f've to eight tons ; but when the surplus produce requires the carriage of heavy articles, to Baltimore, the natural sea port of this part of the country, for six weeks, or two months in the spring, while the waters are kept high by the melting of the snow

* A four years old bullock was killed at Bath in November last that weighed 12 cwt. 28 lb. And this spring a bullock Avas killed at the same place that measured seventeen hands and a half high, eleven feet six inches from the root of his horns to the root of his tail, and nine feet six inches in the girth -- he sold for two hundred and forty-seven dollars cash.

f The salt works at Onondago are now under the direction of the State. As the salt can be brought to the Seneca Lake or the Genesee River by water, it can be procured here at little more expense than on the sea coast, and equally as good.

J A great quantity of spirituous liquors is necessary for the supply of the western posts, and Indian trade in Canada. The whisky, for some years back, has been sent from Northumberland, in Pennsylvania: after a carriage of four hundred miles it is sold for one dollar and fifty cents per gallon at Niagara, and two dollars and fifty cents at Detroit. The county of Ontario, from its com munication with Lake Ontario, has a very decided advantage; and the distill Ing of whiskey has already become an object to our farmers.