The land-holder will receive, in payment for his lands, articles fit for the Baltimore market,f and the settlers will be encouraged to make great exertions to pay from the soil, for the land they have purchased.

The success of every individual who has. emigrated to the Genesee Country, has stamped a greater value on the lands than ever was known in any place so recently settled, and so distant from the old settled country ; but this has, in a great measure, been owing to the convenience and security aflbrded to the settlers at the earliest period of their emigration.

In several instances I have advised the following plan for the settlement of a few families of Europeans. In this I have considered their apprehensions and difliculties, when scattered in a woody country, and the advantage they may gain by being mutually able to aid and encourage each other. I proposed that the whole body should, instead of scattering in the woods, fix themselves in a village, and bestow their first labour on improving the village lots, which, to save the labour of fencing, should be worked up in a number of small portions by the settlement under one common fence, but each lot to belong to the individual proprietor. Houses could be built at a small expence on each town lot, to accommodate famiUes. Foreigners will find much advantage from following a

•A Mr. Kryder, of Juneata River, invented these boats about six years ago; the high price of flour and lumber induced him to make the experiment, and he arrived safe at Baltimore with his load. They have been used every year since that time, and are made of plank: they are broke up after discharging their cargo, and sold for lumber, with little or no loss: they are navigated by three or five men, and will float down at the rate of eighty miles per day; they are called Arks.