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three or four miles from the said boundary line, with 

 a considerable increase of water. From Harmony, 

 at the great bend of the Susquehannah to Tioga 

 Point by the course of the river, the distance is es- 

 timated at about sixty-five miles. The Tioga is 

 navigable from its mouth for batteaux to the distance 

 of fifty miles, and its north-westernmost sources are 

 but a few /miles from the Chenessee river, which 

 runs into lake Ontario. With this lake it is also 

 nearly connected by many streams which flow into 

 it from the north, and the numerous smaller lakes 

 which are situated between the Ontario, Chenessee, 

 and north-east branch of the Susquehannah, water- 

 ing large tracts of some of the richest land in the 

 United States. The Tioga is thus very conveniently- 

 connected with lake Ontario, by a communication, 

 which at a small expense, may be made completely 

 a water communication. From the mouth of the 

 Tioga to Newtown is eighteen miles. The portage 

 thence to Connedessago, or Seneca lake, which may- 

 be turned wholly into a lock navigation by Newtown 

 creek, is eighteen miles further, down Connedessage 

 lake thirty-six, down Seneca, or Onondago river fed 

 Oswego, or Ontario, eighty-six; in the whole, one 

 hundred and fifty-eight miles. 



At the painted post, within twenty miles of the 

 mouth of Newtown creek, in the state of New York, 

 the Tioga is separated into two branches, the north- 

 west and the south-west branch. The first has 

 been already mentioned and described. To this 

 point of separation, the south branch flows through, 

 the state of Pennsylvania from a considerable dis- 

 t&nce. Between this branch, and a branch of tte 



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