BATH. 
909 
scription of the Wind-Gap in the Blue Moun¬ 
tains.—Summary Account of the Moravian 
Settlement at Bethlehem—Return to Phila¬ 
delphia . 
Philadelphia, November. 
BATH is a post town,, and the principal 
town in the western parts of the state of 
New York. Though laid out only three years 
ago, yet it already contains about thirty houses* 
and is increasing very fast. Amongst the 
houses are several stores or shops well furnished 
with goods, and a tavern that would not be 
thought meanly of in any part of America, 
This town was founded by a gentleman who 
formerly bore the rank of captain in his Ma¬ 
jesty's service; he has likewise been the foun¬ 
der of Williamsburgh and Falkner’s Town; 
and indeed to his exertions, joined so those of 
a few other individuals, may be ascribed the 
improvement of the whole of this part of the 
country, best known in America by the name 
of the Genesee Country, or the County of the 
Lakes, from its being watered by that river, and 
a great number of small lakes. 
The landed property of which this gentle¬ 
man, who founded Bath, &c. has had the 
active management, is said to have amounted 
originally to no less than six millions of acres, 
the greater part of which belonged to an indi- 
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