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‘‘ back to Bath,-where, as lie says, no one need 
“ either work or starve ; where, though & man 
“ may have the ague nine months in the year, 
ec he may console himself in spending the 
“ other three fashionably at the races. 
A Farmer A 
« Hanover , October 25 th, 1796.’' 
The town of Bath stands on a plain, sur¬ 
rounded on three sides by hills of a moderate 
height. The plain is almost wholly divested 
of its trees ; but the hills are still uncleared, 
and have a very pleasing appearance from the 
town. At the foot of the hill runs a stream 
of pure water, over a bed of gravel, which is 
called Conhocton Creek. There is a very 
considerable fall in this creek just above the 
town, which affords one of the finest seats for 
mills possible. Extensive saw and flour mills 
have already been erected upon it, the princi¬ 
pal saw in the former of which gave, when we 
visited the mill, one hundred and twenty 
strokes in a minute, sufficient to cut, in the 
same space of time, seven square feet, super¬ 
ficial measure, of oak timber; yet the miller 
informed us, that when the water was high it 
would cut much faster. 
Conhocton Creek, about twenty miles below 
Bath, falls into Tyogra River, which after a 
course of about thirty miles, empties itself into 
the eastern branH> of the River Susquehanna!). 
