To forward this object, it is intended, this season, to begin an establishment at the extremity of the navigation of the Canisteo ; and to rnduce the farmers on the Genesee River to cultivate hemp and flax, proper boats will be provided to carry those articles to market. To those who object that three hundred and fifty four miles* is too lengthy an inland navigation to carry such bulky acticles to market, I reply, that the United States are at present supplied with hemp from Russia, and that it there bears an inland navigation of one thousand two hundred miles before it reaches a sea-port.

Some years ago the high price of flour and lumber at Baltimore, induced a Mr. Kryder, a farmer on the Juniata River to try an experiment in the mode of transporting flour from his mills to Baltimore : he built a sort of a boat, which he called an Ark ; it was long and flat, and constructed of very large timber, such as he supposed would suit the purpose of builders. This vessel, or float, carried three hundred barrels of flour. This man had the courage to push through a navigation then unknown, and arrived safe at Baltimore, where he received from the merchants a premium of one dollar above the market price for every barrel. Thus encouraged -- the same person has been down every year since, and has made so considerable improvement on this sort of boat, that arks are now used which carry five hundred barrels. From the most diligent inquiry, and from the ease with which Mr. Bartles carried down his lumber last spring, there does not exist a doubt but that the navigation of the Conhocton and Canisteo will serve for boats of this kind, carrying from three to five hundred barrels.