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fut foon, like the Mohawks and the 
Oneidas, they will ‘leave, in ‘the spots 
which they have inhabited, no other trace 
of their exiltence than a name.—We pro- 
ceeded through Aurelius and Marcellus, 
now richly painted with the variety of au- 
‘tumnal dyes, in which the fcarlet of the 
maple and the yellow of the beech were 
remarkably conipicuous, and after crofling 
the outlets of the Ojfi/co, Shaneatetes, and 
Owafeo lakes, which unite with the Olwezo 
river, wearrived at the Cayuga. Youmay 
imagine what a happy relief it afforded the 
eye, loog pent up by furrounding woods, 
to take-a glance over a beautiful expanfe 
of water, mingling in blue perfpective with 
the horizontal tky. The fhores of this 
lake are generally level, and there is an 
air of pleafing tranquillity in the fcenery 
of its borders. On our'refurn, we croffed it 
in a calm night, when the image of the 
moon. refle&ted in: its. beautiful mirror 
fringed with the dark fhadows. of the fyl- 
van banks, prefented a picture that en- 
tranced us in meditation, The bottom of 
this’ lake is muddy, and. affords nourith- 
ment tovery fine eels.. Salmon trout, and 
various other ffh, are caught in it. 
Among the extraordinary exertions of its 
inhabitants, for which this part of the 
ftate is dittinguifhed, it is now in agita- 
tion to lay a bridge over the Cayuaga lake, 
towards its northern extremity, where the 
paflage is nearly a mile in extent. The 
dlepth of the water does not exceed eight 
or ten feet on this end of the lake ; but to 
the fouth, where the land is move elevated, 
dt is not Jefs than eighty fathoms. It is 
yemarkable to an inhabitant of the Souths 
em parts of the ftate, who has been ac- 
cuftomed to the fine pure exhilarating in- 
fluence of the North-weft winds on the 
atmofphere, that in this quarter they are 
‘generally fraught with rain. ‘This is the 
cafe alfo on the Mohawk river, and it may 
be afcribed to the vicinity of Lake Ontario, 
from whof¢ exhalations a vapour is preci: 
pitated as the wind direéts. On the 
Welftern, fide of Lake Ontario, I found 
alfo that the Matterly winds generally pro- 
duced rain. ; 
. Having been ferried by a venerable ma- 
jor oyer the Cayuga, we again entered inte 
the woods, and croffing the outlet of “a 
_green ffreain from the lake, proceeded to- 
wards Geneva, I was fenfibly ftruck.at 
various times on my way with odoriferous 
effuvia from fome unknown- quarters, 
which J could have fancied as the mingled 
and concentrsted effences of the whole ve, 
getable world around us—for a world it 
truly feemed whenever we could take a ments of architecture and tafte. 
— Country South of Lake Ontaris. 
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retro{pective, or bird's eye, view of the 
country—It was one immenfe intermina- 
ble foreft—ceelum undique et undique 
fylva-—at this feafon of the year mot 
beautifully adorned with a variety of co- 
lours. » It has been obferved that the 
winters to the Weft of the Cayuga lake 
are milder than on the Eaftern fide. This, 
amoneit other caufes, may be owing as 
well to a difference in the foil which_be- 
comes more light and dry to the weft-~ 
ward, as to a diminution of the quantity 
of wood. 
Geneva is fituated on an eminence at 
the North weft end of the Seneca Lake ; 
on its moft commanding’ point of: eleva- 
tion ftands a fine and tpacious hotel, 
which would be worthy of the meridian 
of Europe.’ This: lake, formerly called 
-the Conodafago, derives its prefent appel- 
lation from the Seneca Indians, who have 
inhabited thefe parts, and are now the molt 
numerous and refpeétable tribe of the Six 
Nations.. The town on its bank has been 
called Geneva, from a refemblance, in 
point of fituation, to the city which bears 
the fame name in Europe. Its fituation, 
with reipeét to the body and fhape of the 
water, may afford fome fimilitude; but [ 
faw nothing to correfpond with the bold 
and {now-capt mountains of Meilletai, 
none of the picturefque and fhelving 
banks of the Pays de Vaud.—The cha- 
racter of its fcenery bears no ftronger re- 
femblance to any thing Ihave feen, than 
the level end woody margins of the 
Cayuga. I obferved,-as I walked the 
fhore, an aftonifhing number of- bones 
and organifed fubftances, in a petrified / 
ftate. A valuable falt fpring, I have 
been informed, has lately been difcovered 
near Geneva, 
The next lake we reached was the Ca- 
nadarquaj, which hies fixteen miles to the 
weftward of Geneva. The fouthern ex- 
tremity of this and of all the northern 
communications or fountains of Lake On- 
tario, as well as of that great lake itfelf, 
affords the deepeft water. The Canadar- 
quai has been founded to the South with 
a line of onehundred and twenty fathoms, 
without reaching its bottom. It is back- 
ed. on that quarter by’a range of high and. 
pictureique mountains. The beautiful 
little town of Canadarquai, viline on a 
gentle acclivity from the bottom of the 
lake, prefented to us a fight as unexpect- 
ed as reviving. It confilts of -one ftrect 
about three quarters of a mile long, not 
only remarkable for the neatnefs-of its 
dwelling-houfes, but for fome embellisa- 
We vi- 
a ee lived 
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