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provisions and goods for the Indian trade, and bringing back furs, etc., all of which furnished a limited business for a few small schooners. In 1833, the first association was formed of steamboat owners. This year there were employed 11 steamboats, which cost $360,000. There were made, that season, three trips to the upper Lakes, two to Chicago and one to Green Bay. One of the boats left Buffalo for Chicago on the 23d of June, at 9 p.m., and returned on the 18th July, at 10 p.m.; and the other left July 20th and returned August 11th; the first trip occupying 25 days, and the other 22 days. In 1854, the same trip was made by a sail vessel in something over 4 days.* In 1834, the association was composed of 18 boats, costing $600,000, seven new ones having come out that season. This year, three trips were made to Chicago and two to Green Bay. In 1836, the Steamboat Association was dissolved. In 1839, another association was organized, and a regular line of eight boats, varying in size from 350 to 650 tons each, was formed to run from Buffalo to Chicago, making a trip in every 16 days. In 1840, the number of boats on the Lakes was 48, of various sizes, from 150 to (one of them only) 750 tons, and cost, in their construction, $2,200,000. In 1841, the same arrangements existed. The number of sail vessels owned on the Lakes above the Falls of Niagara, during that year, was estimated at 250, varying in size from 30 to 350 tons; the largest one being an old steamboat converted into a sail craft. The cost of these vessels varied from $1000 to $14,000. The average would probably be $5,000, which would show a capital invested in said vessels, in that year, of $1,250,000. In 1845, there was the following number and description of vessels owned and running on the Lakes above Niagara Falls: 52 Steamboats, 20,500 tons. 8 Propellers 2,500 " 50 Brigs, 11,000 " 270 Schooners, 42,000 " Total 76,000 *The barque mary Stockton, built by the junior editor of the Nautical Magazine, has run from Chicago to Buffalo in 84 hours, or 3 1/2 days.