Canandarqua lake is situated 20 miles west from Seneca lake, is nearly 20 miles in length, and 2 miles in breadth.

Chataughqua lake is situated near lake Erie, and is nearly 15 miles in length. The lands near this lake are very rich.

Mud lake, Honeyoy, Hemlock and Canesus lakes are situated from 10 to 35 miles west from Seneca lake, are from 6 to 10 miles long, and from them are easy carrying places by land to the boatable waters of Susquehanna.

The climate appears to be subject to changes, which is probably caused by the neighbourhood of the immense bodies of water contained in the lakes by which this Country is partly bounded. These lakes also are probably the cause of the mildness of the climate in summer and winter ; for the air passing over extensive bodies of water which are of nearly the same degree" of coldness in summer as in winter, and freeze not in winter, is more uniform in its temperature than it would be if it passed over land. The northerly and westerly winds which occasion an extraordinary coldness in winter, spring and fall, on the East side of the Alleghany mountains, by blowing from the high and cold tract of country composed of those mountains, are tempered in this country by passing over the extensive bodies of w^ater which are situated on the northern and western boimds ; and the south wind does not produce those frequent changes in winter which are injurious to the raising of grain in the easterly parts of the states. -- Whilst the neighbourhood of these lakes also renders the air in summer cool and temperate ; and the nights, very few excepted, are so cool as to admit of sleeping under blankets. The heat of summer in this country is accordingly more temperate than in the eastern parts of