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.

] The proper articles for the Baltimore market are lumber, such as ship plank boards, scantling, lath and shingles -- fat cattle, barrelled beef and pork, flour, Larley and hemp, may also, at little expence, be transported on the rafts

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plan of this kind: one third the number of cattle will be sufficient for the purposes of husbandry, and a great deal more produce will be raised in a large enclosure than in a number of small separate ones, making the same extent of land. In small fields, surrounded with woods, one half will be overshadowed, so as to bear little crops. As the settlers find it convenient, they can improve, and afterwards move to their farm lots, and lease or sell to mechanics their town lots.

One mill, one blacksmith, and one road will serve the settlement, at a time when every shilling is valuable, and eVery hour's labour of much consequence ; and the satisfaction of a society labouring together, who are bound to each other by the strongest motives to friendship, will lighten the most arduous task.