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citizens. Buffant arger engage :

descriptions. The preser perputten of the tw over 30,000. I was carerea in 1922

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a fine water power. winch & emprovet for foow they kiss ar mills, &c. Black Buck & exienen eiged 11 saath hai The lower or northern terimne of tus kes sais » We town increases rapidly it popisation au som manusia danů. 5000 inhabitants. It was burned by the bim i DokuKIA, 1813.

Auroraville, in the town of Aurora de ĺne wawr power on the Cazeuvre creek a jel, wowever, we Islay m proved. The Aurora semary saturu masivutam. Population, 1000.

Williamsville, in the town of Amberest is a thrivny vil Large quantities of water lite, Carauie con factured here. Population, about 1900.

Springville is a flourishing manufacturing vilige, in the town of Concord. It has a number of lactonics, but a mwya rated academy. Population, 1800.

Tonawanda is a new town, comprising Groad Isboud and a portion of the main land, as well as some other mall i The island was purchased some years since by a company call

the East Boston Company, who erected here extensive sawmille, for the purpose of preparing ship timber, but in the general depression of business in 1836-7, they were forced to sus pend operations. The village of Whitehaven was built mainly by this company.

BOUNDARIES. North, by Mouro Eat in Gates bouts by Allegany and Steuben; and We

counties.

SURFACE.

This county is entuder of tu wott Beyer set the great dividing ridge which separate fur stundial Susquehanna and Omo from the wakers browse The southern portion of te wen.

Lake Ontario, and the deasem what falls most part gradual is divino worse

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a line with the Portage aus ŴYOU 1918 MAP mag continuation of the mounang

plane is, however, intersectet in the viny 0 which, with a width o from two to four mak the southern part of the county for that got tat ridge of still greater élevation, Wavelser lik Bulus Botwoo the Conesus and Hemlock sants beating in tishio

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RIVERS. The Genesee river in the great of the ty, and receives all the waters Wiucl fist at or bow trough a. Its principal tributaries are the Canastruga anc A creeks, and the outlets of the Coucou aue Boullock wins.

The Honeoye outie: forms a portion of the castor boundary of the county.

LAKES. Conesus and Hemlock are the only lakes of importance in the county. The former is in mice long and nearly a mile broad. It is well stocked with fish, and is said to be more than 300 feet deep.

Hemlock lake is six miles long and one mile wide. It lies partly in Ontario county.

CLIMATE. The climate is mild and temperate; more uniform than in some other sections of the state. It is regarded as very healthful

GEOLOGY AND MINERALS.

About two-thirds of the county, upon the north, belong to the Ontario group, consisting principally of the limestone of the Onondaga salt group, which, in some cases, approaches very near the surface. In the southern portion, the Ludlowville and Cashaqua shales are the prevailing rocks, though intermingled with limestone.

Bog iron ore occurs in the county. Gypsum is abundant. Some brine springs have been discovered, though not of great value. The sulphur springs of Avon* have a high and deserved celebrity, in numerous diseases, and rank among the best sulphur springs in the United States.

The soil is generally

SOIL AND VEGETABLE PRODUCTIONS. highly fertile, and well adapted to the growth of grain. In the north it consists principally of sandy loam, intermingled with decomposed limestone, which renders it perpetually fertile.

In the north, the oak prevails, but is occasionally interspersed with other timber; in the south, oak, maple, elm, basswood, butternut, walnut, ash, hemlock, white pine, &c., are the principal forest trees.

PURSUITS. Agriculture. The culture of grain, and the rearing of cattle and swine, form the principal pursuits of the inhabitants of this county. Manufactures are, however, rising in

* The following are analyses of the sulphur springs of Avon. That of the Upper spring was made by Professor Hadley, of Fairfield, and that of the Lower, by Dr. S. Salisbury, Jr. of Avon.

importance. The principal articles manufactured are flour pa per, lumber, distilled liquors, clothe, dec.

Commerce. The Genesee Valley cana, furnishes a convenient mode of transportation, for the produce of the county, to the water. There are no mines in the county.

STAPLE PRODUCTIONS. Wheat, pork, and cattle are the great staples of the county. Large quantities of butter, wool, date, and corn are also exported. Hemp and fax are grown margry in the Genesee valley.

SCHOOLS. There are 195 school-houses n the coury, Tue schools were taught, on an average, ne moule during the year 1846, and 12,677 children were instructed at an expert $19,502. There were 25.123 volumes in the untract in There were twenty-four private school with 136 pupia aut as admin, with 165 students.

RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS. Prestierane Metrodante Eas tists, Episcopalians. Duct Reformed Universalume. L'anar ans, Congregationalists, Lutheran, Roman Calbos, aud Jews. There are seventy-two churches, and muety two ce gymen of all denominations.

HISTORY. The banks of the Genesee river a the county, were the favorite residence of the beera Juris for a wh period before the wine mat is truc tia beauulu malay Au civilization, this tribe were more advanced that the indian goa erally, and were considered foremost in the aria gl saana warni the allied tribes. They curvanec tuer brice sest is for themselves, and when they couc ut out & busy s hud from the forests or the wee noses to the grousse y twat soil for sustenaare.

In 1687, the Marquis de Nun ile, governor at Casadio, 44 raged at the firm adherence of the tribe to third lev ed a large force of French aut jussau, que vaikka ka pedition against them. Fulowing the wow of a parka, he approached ther vilage wis tuw miastam $ Chalanymų them, and subjecting the cagurka je u tak w ta tutuk, but the wily Sebenta were too cralty for tam Y 18860, KAMethoddih p They stationed 500 warrione i bakha, AA, MA having throws a troope auto Curursan, wy w well qualä vu ley of musketry, rated soon turn, www* * battle was feree and biosey; to Bukake wak, ** langih ** pulsed, but not without severe was on Uk yout it the Mikh De Nonville oonid not te peravated in to ww uau, tai tie nea day, and then found that they bad Chatroyed a village®, HIM removed their wives and clicom Naya bukanch. Twi idd men, all that remained, were carred away, killed and eaten by his savage allies.

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