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i'Ointbrts, and luxuries of life. The country in- 

 tervening between the two great land and water 

 routes will be shortly settled, and the north side 

 of the canal to the Seneca river will be equally so. 

 On the south side of the middle section of the ca- 

 nal, there are two great turnpike roads, running 

 in the same direction, and the Cayuga, Owasco, 

 Skaneateles, Otisco, Cazenovia, and Little Lakes. 

 On the north side, the waters of the Seneca river, 

 Oneida outlet, Oneida lake, and Wood creek, 

 furnish a navigable communication with Lake 

 Ontario, or the Mohawk, and a great turnpike 

 road is now making : And there are besides, the 

 great lake Ontario, Oneida. Onondaga, and Cross 

 lakes. The west and the east will thus commu- 

 nicate by a great artificial navigation, by rivers 

 and lakes, and by three great turnpike roads. 

 The multiplication of these channels of connexion 

 will bind the most distant regions together by in- 

 dissoluble bonds. But the canal is pre-eminent 

 over all the others in the vastness of its usefulness, 

 and in the extent of its accommodation. 



After leaving Rome, you pass into a great 

 swamp, covered with timber, and formed by the 

 recession of the waters of a vast lake, which has 

 now dwindled down into Oneida lake. This re- 

 gion extends 16 miles to Oneida creek, when you 

 pass into a cultivated country. The contrast is 



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