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the lake, eastward of the river ; on its western 

 bank stands the town of Oswego, consisting of 

 about one hundred houses, and laid out with 

 much regularity. From this place to the town 

 of Albany, on the Hudson River, besides the 

 communication by water, there are very good 

 roads leading through a flourishing well-settled 

 country, which have long constituted one of the 

 principal approaches to Upper Canada; and 

 although many others have been opened within 

 the few last years, the hne will always remain 

 one of primary consequence, as being the most 

 direct. Between Sacket Harbour and Oswego 

 a road passes through EUisburgh, and near the 

 mouth of Salmon River, from which places 

 there are others leading to Utica. Sixteen 

 miles westward of Oswego is a bay called the 

 Great Sodus, about four miles across, and two 

 deep : the entrance to it is narrow, being 

 formed by two projecting points; that on the 

 westward is high, and near to it is the deepest 

 water : a sandy bar stretches across the mouth 

 of the bay, on which there is generally six 

 feet water, but under the western point seven 

 and eight ; within it there are several fathoms : 

 on the eastern side there is a small island : this 

 place forms a very good station for building 

 vessels : round the bay there are some settle- 

 ments from whence roads strike off to Canan- 

 dagua. Irondiquet Bay is another large open* 



