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learn that most numerous accessions are being made to 

 the body in their new home by converts proceeding 

 from this country.* Under the name of the " Latter- 

 day Saints," professing the doctrines of the gospel, the 

 delusions of the system are hidden from the masses by 

 the emissaries who have been despatched into various 

 countries to recruit their numbers among the ignorant 

 and devoutly-inclined lovers of novelty. Who can 

 tell what two centuries may do in the way of giving a 

 historical position to this rising heresy ? 



Leaving behind us the townships of Palmyra and 

 Manchester, the scene of Joseph's first transactions, and 

 of the last battles of his heroes, who seem to have fought 

 very much like the Kilkenny cats, and Canandagua, a 

 pretty town of one long street, running down to the lake 

 of the same name, we rapidly approached the city of 

 Rochester, on the falls of the Genesee Eiver. The valley 

 of this river is celebrated for its production of wheat, 

 and for the first-class flour into which its grain is con- 

 verted by the Eochester millers. On the falls of the 

 Genesee river have been established the numerous mills 

 and factories for which the city of Eochester is famous. 

 In 1812, only ten houses stood where, in 1850, a city 

 with 25,000 inhabitants had already arisen. The flour- 

 mills, which are driven by the great water-power, are 

 the chief distinction of Eochester. Some of these con- 

 sume upwards of 2000 bushels of wheat a-day, and pro- 

 duce, in the same time, 500 barrels of flour. But it has 

 cotton-mills, carpet factories, paper-mills, machine and 

 engine shops, plough, thrashing-machine, and other 

 agricultural implement manufactories, and ship-yards. 



* It has beeu recently stated that the Mormon emigration from 

 Livei-pool alone, up to the present year, has been ] 3,500, and that they 

 have, on • the whole, been superior to and better provided than the 

 other classes of emigrants. Of course, many more of this sect must 

 have emigrated from other ports, and many even from the port of 

 Liverpool, whose faith and ultimate destination was not known. 



