80 CONDITION OF ANIMALS. 



of tlie American horses is not owing to abundance of food in 

 the country, or humanity in the people. 



We examined a farm within three quarters of a mile of 



Geneva, belonging to Mr W , consisting of 280 acres, 200 



of which were cleared, fenced, and subdivided, with good dwell 

 ing-house, two servants houses, suitable offices, and a large pro 

 ductive orchard, for which he asked S 35, or L.7, 5s. 1 Od. sterling 

 per acre. The public burdens aifecting the property were 

 eighteen days labour of a man yearly for road-making, and 

 S 2 for school-tax. There is a flour-mill on an outlet of the 

 lake, propelled by an endless screw lying horizontally in 

 the stream, which, for want of fall, is unsuitable for any com 

 mon machinery. A steam flour-mill had been set a-going in 

 the village a few days before our arrival. 



Geneva is situated on the west side of lake Seneca, near 

 its northern extremity, commanding a view of the lake, which 

 is the most beautiful sheet of w^ater in America. There is a 

 college, four churches, a bank, and other public buildings. 

 The chief part of the village consists of a square, and a street 

 of neat villas running parallel to the lake, on which a steam 

 boat plies daily to the extremity, distant thirty-five miles. 



