26 Canal between Seneca lake and Tioga creek. 



arks, have to return home by land ; by the loss of time 

 and expense which the storekeeper experiences in go- 

 ing to Philadelphia or New York, to purchase goods 4 

 and by, what is of more consequence to him than all 

 the rest, the unwillingness of merchants to credit coun- 

 try store-keepers, who, instead of making a direct re- 

 mittance of their produce in payment for the goods 

 purchased, turns that produce into cash in a distant 

 city, by which the certainty of making the regular re- 

 mittance is lessened in proportion to the accidents and 

 temptations, to which the store-keeper will be liable, 

 by either losing, squandering, or defrauding the mer- 

 chant of so transferable a property as money. You 

 will readily perceive that the store-keeper, who takes 

 his produce to Philadelphia and purchases his goods 

 in New York, is almost equally subjected to the last 

 mentioned disadvantage : then, why, you ask, does he 

 not purchase his goods in Pennsylvania ? — because 

 the navigation of the Susquehanna is so uncertain that 

 he cannot tell when to calculate upon receiving them ; 

 and because, even if he could wait, without inconve- 

 nience, for five or six months, for heavy articles, there 

 is no road to enable him to carry home goods bearing 

 land carriage, and without which he could not carry on 

 his business. 



'' It is true, that, notwithstanding these disadvanta> 

 ges, some few store-keepers take their produce to, and 

 buy their goods in Philadelphia ; but it is mostly 

 those who make their remittances in live stock ; and 

 even many of these, within a few years have preferred 

 driving their cattle to the North river. — This they have 

 done with reluctance, because vegetation lasts a month 



