Lawrence ; while the Canisteo, a branch of the Susquehannah, falls into the Chesapeak, Both are navigable for boats of ten tons to within nine miles of each other, and the portage now in use may, with very trifling labour, be reduced to five miles. The navigation of the Canisteo has been more used than any of the other branches of the Susquehannah that water the Genesee Country, and has added much to facilitate the moving of the Pennsylvania emigrants ; but the recent settlement of the country has not permitted them even to clear out, much less improve the navigation in the manner it will admit of.

This country has now drawn the attention of some very respectable characters in the mercantile towns on the Susquehannah, and at Baltimore ; and there is no doubt but the farmers will be induced to turn their attention to those articles which are most in demand in the markets on the coast. One of the most respectable mercantile houses in Baltimore made a purchase, last year, near Tioga Point, in order to draw" to that quarter the trade of the western country : they have built a set of mills, and are estabUshing an extensive work for the manufacturing of ship cordage. If we consider the vast body of rich flats on the Susquehannah, where its various branches pass the Genesee Country, and the ease v^ith which the produce of the Genesee River can be brought to the navigable part of the Canisteo, it will appear that the quanity of hemp which may be collected at Tioga Point, or the Painted Post will be incalculable. The flats on the Genesee River and Canascraga Creek alone, cannot be estimated at less than eighty miles in length, and about two in breadth, forming a body of about eighty thousand acres : and every acre is, I suppose, eighteen feet deep of black mould.