Lands that are now selling at four dollars an acre, were sold twelve years ago at only the same number of shillings an acre, and the advance of their value in the course of 10 or 15 years hence will most probably be very considerable. A farm may probably be puchased in the cheapest manner by buying land without any improvement. Three men with a yoke of oxen may clear and fence, and sow or plant ten acres in five or six weeks, and also build a comfortable house ; and such improvement may be hired at the rate of ten or twelve dollars an acre and 50 to 100 dollars for a log house. If an improvement is made in the early part of spring, a sufficient supply of corn and spring wheat may be raised the first season for a family , and cattle may be well kept in the woods. There are many instances of cattle being kept throughout the winter only by browsing, or eating the tops of basswood and some other sorts of trees cut down for them ; although hay may be purchased cheap and in abundance.

This country contains three counties, viz. : Ontario, Steuben and Genesee, which are subdivided into townships, commonly six miles square. The whole number of inhabitants is nearly 30,000, of which number the county of Ontario alone contains about 20,000 in the limits of 45 miles square. The number of votes given in Ontario and Genesee counties in spring 1804, for 3 Members of Assemhlyy by which an idea may be formed of the population of each township, is as follows : -- Canandarqua, 272, Hartford, ]34, Bloomfield 405, Palmyra 198, Genesee 118, Jerusalem 37, Easton 163, Williamson 51, Charieston 173, Bristol 188, Northfield 168, Sodus 53, Augusta 120, Middletown 87, Seneca 303, Pittstown 183, Farmington 142, Vernon 217, Phelps 265, Sparta 95, Batavia 220, Leicester 81, Southampton 114, and Northampton 80.