But the exploring of the navigations, removing the incidental obstructions, opening roads, and building mills, not only procured an easy supply of necessaries, but, by inducing a rapid settlement, ensured the cultivation of the country. What would four years ago have been impracticable, is now easy ; and all the new settlers are supplied with every necessary at moderate price. Mechanics of every description are to be found throughout the country, and no country was ever so well supplied with mills.

It is necessary for all those who propose removing to new settlements, to make a calculation of the expence of their removal, and the quantity of provisions which will be necessary, until they can raise crops from their own labour. The great object is to reach their respective destinations as near the opening of the spring as possible, as their cattle will then in a short time be provided for without any expence, and in a very few months they can reap the fruits of their industry. The European must expect to encounter difllicultjes ; but the greatest of these, perhaps, will be to overcome bis prejudices in favour of the customs of his own country. A little observation will, however, convince him that the most ordinary customs of the country have not been adopted without good reason, and by no means should be deviated from by new settlers.

It is a true observation that, practice and example are . ever to

1158 PAPERS RELATING TO

be more depended on than theory. I shall therefore, to be some guide in your future business, give you a short detail of the operations of a gentleman who left England only last April, and settled himself in the Genesee Country, where he is now comfortably established. M. B. left England early in April, and arrived with his family at New-York, about the middle of May : after having purchased a few necessary articles at New-York, he took a passage for himself and his family, on board an Albany sloop, and in two days he arrived in Albany ; from thence he went, by land to Schenectady, a small town on the Mohawk River, sixteen miles from Albany, where he engaged a three ton boat to carry him to Geneva, at which place he arrived early in June.