30 Canal between Seneca lake and Tioga creek. 



one mile of HornilPs (within a few miles of Arkport) 

 on the Canisteo. After that month, or until the fresh- 

 ets prevail, those streams are so shallow as not to ad- 

 mit of navigation, although they always contain a con- 

 siderable quantity of water. The next improvement 

 is the making a turnpike road from Philadelphia to 

 Amsterdam on lake Erie, making Angelica one of 

 the points of direction. From the Pennsylvania line to 

 Angelica and Amsterdam, the country would admit of 

 a good road, the practicability, expense, 8cc. of making 

 the road from Philadelphia to the Pennsylvania line, 

 you can best determine. I should suppose, that those 

 improvements would secure to Pennsylvania a trade 

 with nearly all the country between Seneca lake and 

 lake Erie, and certainly the trade in live stock of the 

 whole of the Genessee country. How far I may be 

 correct in these opinions, the enclosed map, together 

 with the information I shall give you respecting the 

 trade with Montreal, will in some degree enable you 

 to decide. Had there been a direct road from Philad- 

 elphia to Angelica, it would have saved several thou- 

 sand dollars, in the expense of making a new settle- 

 ment. By a reference to the map you will find that 

 Angelica is nearer to Philadelphia, in a direct line, 

 than to New York, or to the North river, by the pro- 

 posed turnpike in this state, which will be nearly 

 finished next fall. How many gentlemen of your city 

 have been incredulous, when they have been informed 

 that Amsterdam was nearer, in a direct line, to Philad- 

 elphia than to New York, merely because it happens 

 to lie in the same state, of which the latter city is the 

 metropolis. 



