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.

I am &c.

WESTERN NEW-YOKK. 1159

LETTER VII. .

Dkar Sir,

The (lillerent communications by water from the Genesee Country to the sea 1 shall endeavour to explain to you in as few words as possible. From the country known by that name there are three that are now used. 1st. To Baltimore by the Susquhanncih ; 2<i. To Albany by the Seneca and Mohawk Rivers; 3(1. To Montreal by Lake Ontario and the River St. Lawrence ; and from the south-west part of the country boats may descend the Alle<rany River, which is a branch of the Ohio, to New Orleans.

The Susquehannah enters the Chesapeak Bay at Havre de Grace. Few rivers embrace a greater extent of country within its various branches ; and none afibrd better navigation to so near their source. At Northumberland the west and north branches of this river meet, affording a very advantageous situation for trade The branch which heads in the Genesee Country makes, from l^orthumberland, a course almost directly north, and is called the North Branch, At Tioga Point a junction is formed between the waters of the Otsego Lake, known by the name of the East Branch of the Susquehannah, and Tioga River, and form a situation very similar to that of Northumberland.