20 UNION sruix:.s — ov/asco lake. 



for most hydraulic purposes. At this p!ace vaiaa- 

 bie mills have been erected by William S. Bur- 

 ling, a very worthy and intellig'cnt mail, under 

 whose auspices a pleasant village has been esia- 

 biislicd. 



Owasco Lake lies about 16 miles east of these 

 springs, and is at least 150 ftet higher than the 

 Cayuga Lake — and as the intermediate country 

 leposes on lime stone, some suppose that Union 

 Springs are the out burst of a subterranean com- 

 nsunicaticn. A similar opinion prevails about 

 the origin of the springs at Caledonia in Genesee. 

 The jirogress of time and inquiry -vvili ascertain 

 the solidity of these speculations. 



This is the finest wheat country in the world. — 

 The white bald wheat Vv'ith red chaff is the princi- 

 pal grain, and all the materiaJs of a great hydrau- 

 lic establishment, can be brought to and sent 

 from the works i)y water. Gypsum lines ten 

 miles of the eastern bank of tliis lake. The Cocks- 

 comb plaster, a singular variety of marl, is to be 

 found in great plenty, and also inexliaustible 

 stores of the latter in its common state. 



The Cayuga Lake abounds with fnie fjsh, and 

 among others, with the white fish, or salmo clupca 

 formis of the celebrated Dr. Mitchiil, who is ccr- 

 tainlv at the head of the American scavans. The 



