town
derives its name from its similarity of situation to Geneva in
Switzerland. It is also quite new, and contains about four thousand
inhabitants. It has two churches and several large stone and brick
houses, of which the Franklin Hotel, situated on the bank of the
lake, is the most spacious and beautiful....]

Canandaigua, which lies on the north point of the lake of the same name,
is an extremely pleasant town. The court was sitting here, and there was
a large collection of people, so that the town exhibited a very lively
appearance. At this place the road separates, the left goes through
Batavia and several small villages to Buffalo on Lake Erie; the right to
Rochester, and thence to Lake Ontario and the Falls of Niagara. And as
this road again approaches the Erie canal, it was said to be the most
interesting; on this account it was given the preference, though the
longest route.

[_Travels_:

Canandaigua, which lies on the north point of the lake of the same
name, which is about twenty miles long, is an extremely beautiful
and pleasant town, that has been but lately settled.... The court
was sitting, and there was a large collection of people, so that the
town exhibited a very lively appearance. At this place the road
separates, the left goes through Batavia and several small villages
to Buffalo on Lake Erie; the right, to Rochester, and thence to Lake
Ontario and the Falls of Niagara: and as this road again approaches
the Erie canal, it is said to be the most interesting. On this
account we gave it the preference, although the longest route.]

They left Canandaigua in the afternoon, and rode through Victor, Mendon,
and Pittsford, to Rochester. They arrived at Rochester at half-past
eight o'clock in the evening, and took lodgings at the Eagle tavern.
They crossed the Genessee river, which divides Rochester into two parts,
on a wooden bridge built firmly and properly, and the next morning
walked through the town. Several hundred yards below the bridge the
Genessee river is about two hundred yards wide, and has a fall of
ninety-five feet. Above the falls is a race which conducts the water to
several mills, and it again flows up into the river below the falls,
where it forms three beautiful cascades.

Rochester is one of the most flourishing towns in the state of New-York.
At this place the Erie canal is carried over the Genessee river by a
stone aqueduct bridge. This aqueduct,