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CHAPTER XL 



Journey from Geneva to Lewistown Land offered for Sale 

 Canandaigua Genesee Country Variations of Temperature 

 Agricultural Notices American and Scotch notions of Re 

 verted Wheat Genesee Flats Mr Wadesworth Avon 

 Wood Bridges Girdling Trees Falls of the Genesee Ro 

 chester Ridge Road Face of the Country. 



WE left Geneva in the morning by a stage-coach, and after 

 travelling through a country of clay soil, badly farmed, but 

 bearing excellent wheat crops, arrived at Canandaigua. Hav 

 ing a letter to a Scotch gentleman residing there, I discovered 

 him by his national appearance when riding on the street. 

 I was gratified at visiting him, and in viewing his new house 

 and fine garden, one of the rarest sights in America. The 

 necessity of proceeding with the object of my tour, pre 

 vented me sharing his sincere hospitality, and I returned to 

 Blossom s Hotel, and dined in an excellent room of large 

 dimensions. In the afternoon we walked four miles in the 

 direction of Mills, to view some lands for sale, and found the 

 soil and wheat crops on the road generally good. For fine 

 cleared land $25 per acre was asked; and a person accosted 

 me on the road and offered his farm of 100 acres, and his 

 father s of the same extent, with suitable offices, at 828 per 

 acre. Almost every farmer in the eastern States who has a 

 family, or is in straitened circumstances, is willing to sell his 

 land and move to the western States, where he can obtain 

 soil of equal quality, and in a finer climate, at a twentieth 

 part of the price ; and foreigners, who are easily known, and 

 supposed to be in search of land, are constantly asked to pur 

 chase farms. 



Canandaigua is situated near the outlet of the Lake of the 



