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is an excellent mill-seat. I heard of limestone about nine miles 1808 

 from Terples's near to the bank of the Seneca Lake, but I saw 

 not a particle of that stone on the whole road from the mouth 

 of Loyalsock till I came here: an extent of ninety-four miles. 



Thursday May 1 I. To Powel's at Geneva (fifteen miles). 

 About one hundred houses ; a place of much trade. A delightful 

 street on the bank of the lake : the houses of frame, well painted, 

 clean, cheerful, with a full view of this charming lake in front. 

 Geneva is built on limestone, which I suspect extends all the way 

 up the Seneca Lake to Catharine's Town, if not in a continuous 

 stratum, in hills and nodules. Powel's tavern was built by cap- 

 tain Williamson. It might be kept cleaner and neater than it is. 

 I guessed it at fifty feet square withinside. . . . Instead, 

 therefore, of going the direct turnpike road to Canandaigua, 

 (pronounced Canadarque) sixteen miles, I went the Sulphur- 

 spring road. 



9 To Sterne's tavern: walked to Dickson's mill and 

 house, . . . 



3|/2 To Powel's at the Sulphur-springs. This is the brother 

 of Powel at Geneva, a civil obliging man. The place is dreary, 

 but the house large, though unfinished. It was intended as a 

 kind of watering place, . . . There are two or three sulphur 

 springs hereabout, but Powel's is the largest and most saturated. 

 . . . I gave for a bottle of London porter (so called) at 

 Powel's five shillings York money: probably the people, who 

 would otherwise resort here, find the living somewhat too expen- 

 sive. An assessor here informed me that the lands of that town- 

 ship were rated one with another in the tax books, at twenty-two 

 shillings and six pence, York currency, per acre. 



1 To Taylor's at Canandaigua : a good tavern. Canadarque 

 consists of one street extending from the lake. It contains from 

 ninety to a hundred frame houses, generally speaking, neat and 

 elegant in their external appearance; a meeting house and a 

 court house. It is indeed a very handsome town. There are 

 two potash works here. About eight lawyers, for this is the 



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