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. At the Painted Post, a small village on the most easterly bounds of Steuben county, the dilferent branches of the Tioga, or Chemung River, form a junction, and are all navigable for a great distance into the Genesee Country. The Conhocton River rises in the north-west part of the County of Steuben, and taking a southeasterly course, passes the town of Bath, the county town, to which place it is navigable for boats of eight tons : about five miles below Bath it is joined by Mud Creek, so called from a lake that forms its source ; and even this small stream is navigable for boats, to Mr. Bartlcs's mills, built on the outlet of the lake, eleven miles from its mouth. Mr. Bartles, from these mills, rafted one hundred thousand feet of lumber, last spring, to Baltimore, by the Susquehannah, and found the business so advantageous, that he is now preparing a much larger quantity for the same market. As you descend the Conhocton, from the

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