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. Mr. B. from the plan of the country, had selected a lot of six hundred and forty acres, situated on the east side of the west branch of the Crooked Lake. On viewing this spot, Mr. B. who is a man of observation, saw, notwithstanding its perfect state of nature, both its beauties and advantages : he found it extending one mile on the lake, from which the ground rose with a sufficient ascent, of a rich soil, and a fine stream of w^ater nearly intersecting the lot. He immediately fixed on a situation for his buildings and garden, and marked reserves of handsome trees in dltferent places so as to give it the appearance of an English country-seat. Mr. B. having fixed his family at Geneva, procured five young men to begin clearing off the timber around the place allotted for his buildings, and also to put in a field of wheat. This gentleman, although unused to business of the kind, by the end of October had put into the ground forty acres of wheat in good order; and before the first of December had his house finished for the reception of his family The continuance of the same exertion for one season more, will place this gentleman in a situation that his family will be abundantly Bupplied with all the necessaries that a farm can be supposed to furnish in any country ; and he will have the satisfaction to reflect, that he owes it entirely to his own exertion and industry.