32 Canal betiveen Seneca lake and Tioga creek. 



government, are turning into canals the ditches of 

 those countries, from which there is the remotest pros- 

 pect of any quantity of produce being diverted to their 

 island, thus making up for their own want of territory, 

 by engrossing to themselves the interior of other na- 

 tions — can suppose that they will not strain every 

 nerve to possess themselves of the productions of so 

 rich and extensive a country, rapidly increasing in 

 population and wealth, and with the importance of 

 which its own Atlantic inhabitants are either unac- 

 quainted, or else undervalue and disregard. 



'* Montreal, however, cannot divert from you the 

 produce of this country in live stock, nor can she, as 

 her harbor is frozen for a very great portion of the 

 year, enter into a competition with you to obtain the 

 produce in wheat, to that extent which her local situa- 

 tion and the enterprize of her merchants would other- 

 wise enable her to do. The high price of wheat ge- 

 nerally depends upon foreign demand, and in propor- 

 tion as the demand^ for so absolutely necessary an ar- 

 ticle of support is urgent, in that proportion the price 

 is exorbitant ; which, together with the bounty, on 

 the importation of that grain, frequently given by the 

 countries in which scarcity exists, produces such an 

 influx of wheat as speedily to supply the exigency, and 

 to render the demand of short duration. The proba- 

 bility, therefore, is, that a foreign market would be 

 glutted from the ports of the United States, before 

 Montreal could supply it with a ship-load of grain, and 

 of course the Montreal merchant could not afford to 

 give so much for wheat as our merchants of the mid- 

 dle states. Indeed it is a fact, that except during the 



