Canal between Seneca lake md Tioga creek. 



longer in Pennsylvania than in this country, the effect 

 of which is that the cattle may be kept in this country 

 until the very moment that the grass fails, and yet could 

 get good pasture on their way to the southward, and 

 of course would arrive in so much better order ; that 

 the grazier in the neighbourhood of Philadelphia, being 

 able to keep them on pasture some time after their ar- 

 rival, could afford to give more for them than the gra- 

 zier on the North river. Great as these advantages of 

 your southern situation are, they are still insufficient 

 to compensate for the state of your roads, which are 

 so very bad, that the cattle cannot be prevented from 

 leaving them and running into the woods, where they 

 feed upon the laurel and of course many of them are 

 thereby killed. This last circumstance entirely pre- 

 vents the sending sheep into Pennsylvania." 



NUMBER II. 



November 25th, 1810. 



** My last letter fmished with taking a general view 

 of the trade between this country and the cities of Bal- 

 timore, Philadelphia and New York. I shall now pro. 

 ceed to consider what portion of the trade of tlie west- 

 ern part of this state, Pennsylvania would immediately 

 enjoy from the making the proposed turnpike road, 

 and from the contemplated improvements in the navi- 

 gation of the Susquehanna ; and also, how far those be- 

 nefits might be extended, and the ultimate benefits 

 your state would derive from the extension. 



'« The turnpike road being finished, the country 



