ed, the one to skip and leap and run eastward to find the-St.
Lawrence, 'ancf -the, other to’ laugh-thr oqghthe QLio valley
until she gradually'melted intothVoqeah ih the -gulf df Mexico.
NAPQtt Centre.—The coùnties,dfCattaratfgns,’C;hautàtique.
and Alleghany, and part of Wyoming and ’Steuben, constitute
a kind of Switzerland. The surface ofihe^countrÿ resembles
a piece o f rumpled calico,' full of knobs and ridges and valleys,
in all possible“ shàp'ës and directions. It is' oh the a i r age
elevated. 'Innkeepers 'and farmers’{encountered oh tw o
trips over it, say that there'is consid&ablÿ more moisture in
the'shape ' Of rain/and dewè and than in the’ Getfeseè
country. It is ' less valuable fopivheât,' but go’dd^for'c^ii
grass, anÆraising stock. " Nothing Can be m^/pi$turesquC.
The bills are often cultivated foTKêlWvèry tops; It is healthy
Such a region is a treasure in & Istate. so! level and plfibid as
müch of western New ¥ ork ; 'and had it'the 'means of ready
access to markets, and‘loathe Atlantic, it would* in a "few
years,' be spotted with gentiemens’ sehts from thl{seaboard.
There are'somé remarkable examples erf the east and west,
and north and -south fissurés of rocks (a trait also noted at
Auburn,) in thesé connt|£& ' At qhpplaCe,.the fissures' are so,
wide, arid the blocks of rock between so that the spot
is sometimes called city af rockf. The rot® ' here' is conglomerate,
that is1, the bed of the çghf formation,; a fact which
denotes the elevation of. the ' country! \,I t i§ to he*''■hoped,
when this country" is further subdivided- into counties and
towns, that some of the characteristic and' descriptive naines
;èf, the aborigines will be retained.;
,, Lodi.—nThis bright, busy,, thriving place, is a curiosity
from the faqt, that thé Cattaraugus creek, (a river it should
be called, )-splits it exactly : or nearly so, in two parts, the one
being in Erie, the ptbçr in jSattaraugus. . Efforts to get a
new county, and a county seat, have heretofore been made.
These conflict with similar ,efforts, to have , a county seat located
at Irving, at the mouth of the creek.
Eighteen .Mctve . 0«EEK.-^Here are vestiges of the Indians’
old-forts; town sites, &c. Time and scrutiny are alone necessary
to tein^«'óut its antiquities.'
■ feiTAtiA.—^The Tonawandas at length consent to have their
Census téken.
''^AflBiJElT&^Gö 'with Mr. Goodwin to visit Owrsco lake;
Gov! f O'ld'Èutch church overlooking the lake,
&c.; extensivè vestiges4 pf an elliptical work exist on Fort
01*;' eurioifs" reota’hgiflnr jflsures of the limestone rock on the
•Öwa$fco 'Sètl'ed north and south. The Indian name of this
plèce, aS told by an Ónóftdag$. chief, is Oscoj first called by
'the' Whites,^éfdenhur'gH’s^Cdrners; finally named frojnGqld-
smitb’s ffesèrted 'YiMage; so that’ the poet may be said to
have had a hand in Supplyingpames for a land to which he
purposed- fb* migrate. It would have pleased “ poor
ffóldsmith”^èiflp,'he have khovfn that he. was the parent of
the name ftp éoTiné a/town — atown thriving somewhat on
the' principle laid down in the concluding lines of the poem—-
“ W h ile -s e lf-d e p e n d e n t povsrer c a n tirn e d e fy ,
A s rQ’ckjs resist- ttie b illow s an d ’ th e 's k y .”, JSyracuse,
r-Pity a better name could not have been found
for,xo fine, central, capital a.site* The associations-are now
all wrong. - What had Djonysius or Archimedes to do here?
It was AfjotairljQ, Garangula, Dekaflifpra, Ontiyaka, and their
kindred, who made.the place famous. ’ Onondaga would have
been, afar better appellation. The Indians called the lake
and if s,basin of - country together, Gan-on-do-a. Salt point,
or thé' saline, soundfed to me as if it might be written Ka-di-
I fca-d(h\
É 'fjTiCA.—-■There was a ford in the Mohawk here. It was
the site o f Fort Schuyler—^a fort named after Major Schpy-
lèr* a man of^hötë'-anfl mifital^'prQvtesS in thé olden time,
long before the .days of General Philip Schuyler. Some
philological gpose, writing from the Canadas, makes Utica
■ an Indian- name.