Some persons, interested in the countries beyond the falls, had this interruption to the navigation examined by a very respectable engineer, for the purpose of discovering the practicability of making a canal to open the navigation of the western lakes. The fall

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was found to be three hundreil and twenty feet from Steedman's Landing, above the falls, to Queens-Town Landing below: the distance to be cut did not exceed four miles, nearly three of which is on level with the navigable part of the river above the falls.

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The principal Taverns on the Road from Albany to Geneva, and from thence to Niagara, with their Distances.

Albany to Schenectady, 16

Schenectady to Bents, 14

Bent's to , 10

Dewight's, ]6

Hudson's Indian Castle, 14

Aldridges, German-Flats, 10

Hotel, Fort-Schuyler, 16

From Fort-Schuyler to Laird's on the ) -,q Great Genesee Road ^

Van Epp's, near the Oneida Reservation, 6

Wemp's, in the Oneida Reservation, 6

Sills's, at the Deep Spring, 11

Keelers, junior, .... 12

Tyler's, Onondago Hollow, 30

Rice's, Nine mile Creek, 10

Cayuga Ferry, 20

Powel's Hotel, Geneva, 13

From Geneva to Canadarqua.

Sanburn's, 16

Searson's, on the State Road, 14

New-Hartford, 11

Peterson's, at the Big Spring, 6

Ganson's, 6

To the Station on the Big Plain, 27

To Buffalo Creek, 43

Miles, 317

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%»The following note from the Hon: John Greig to T. Romeyn Beck Esq. M. D. indicating the author of the foregoing Tract, is annexed to the copy in the State Library.