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ing with timber of first rate quality and finest 

 sorts, and watered in a most singularly conve- 

 nient manner, by numerous large rivers, and an 

 extraordinary number of minor streams; many 

 of the f ormer have their sources from forty to 

 fifty, and as much as ninety miles in the interior, 

 and descend into the St. Lawrence or Lake 

 Ontario ; added to these are the Lakes Oneida, 

 Cayuga, Seneca, Crooked Lake and Chatanque. 

 Of the principal rivers maybe mentioned the 

 Oswego, Genesee, Black River, Oswegatchie, 

 Grass River, Rackett River, St. Regis River, 

 and Salmon River; the Tonnewonta Creek, 

 Buffalo Creek, Oak Orchard Creek, and many 

 others : on their banks are many extensive levels 

 of fine arable, and abundance of luxuriant 

 meadow land. In no part of the United States 

 has the progress of industry been so eminently 

 conspicuous as here, and perhaps in no part of 

 the universe have numerous villages and towns, 

 convenient and good roads, grounds clothed 

 with harvests, and pastures covered with do- 

 mestic cattle of every description, so suddenly 

 emerged from the depths of forests and a wiU 

 derness of matted thickets. From St. Regis to 

 the extremity of Lake Erie there are not less 

 than twenty principal roads striking off to the 

 interior, of which several lead by the shortest 

 route to Washington, Albany, New York, Phi* 

 ladelphia, and even to Boston, Between St. 



