28 Canal between Seneca lake and Tioga creek. 



through which it passed, would soon be settled ; the 

 laurel and other noxious plants would be destroyed, 

 and the pasture would be in much greater quantity, 

 better and cheaper, than on the present roads ; — this 

 would not only enable us to send sheep into Pennsyl- 

 vania and increase the number of cattle dri^^en to that 

 state, but would also bring back to their former market 

 those storekeepers, who have, within these three years 

 past, resorted to the North river. Many farmers, who 

 have not sufficient employment for their horses during 

 the winter, would take their produce to the establish- 

 ments, which would naturally be made on the Susque- 

 hanna, sell it, and bring back, at a moderate price, 

 either goods for the store-keepers or necessaries for 

 their own families. In the event of an extraordinary 

 failure of the waters of the Susquehanna, the store- 

 keeper could bring up into the country the goods of 

 light carriage absolutely necessary to carry on his 

 trade, and wait until the waters should rise to transport 

 his heavy goods. It is, however, to be hoped, that 

 the navigation of the Susquehanna would be so far im- 

 proved as to render such an alternative unnecessary. 

 Men of business could not only travel speedily from 

 this country to Pennsylvania, say to your capital, but 

 the establishment of a regular and frequent communi- 

 cation by mail would take place, a circumstance of 

 more importance, both in carrying on and promoting 

 trade and intercourse between distant places, than is, 

 perhaps, generally imagined. 



'' The navigation of the Susquehanna being improv- 

 ed, so as to admit loaded boats to return up to New- 

 town, those, who at present consider Baltimore as 



