GENEVA, a city of Ontario county, New York, U.S.A., at the northern end of Lake Seneca (36m. long, with an average width of 2m. and a maximum depth of 624 feet) . It is on federal highway 20 and the State Barge canal, and is served by the Lehigh Valley and the New York Central railways. The population was 14,648 in 192o (83% native white) and was 16,053 in 193o by the Federal census. Geneva is a well built city, with fine old residences and streets arched with century-old trees, and is surrounded by the beautiful and romantic scenery of the Finger Lake region. It is the seat of Hobart college for men (founded 1822) and William Smith college for women (a co-ordinate institution, founded 1908) ; the Smith observatory (1888) ; a State armory; and a State agricultural experiment station. The Lafayette tree, under which Gen. Lafayette held a reception in 1825, is said to be the largest tree in the State. A medicinal spring, struck at a depth of 64oft. in boring for natural gas in 1885, flows at the rate of 350, 000gal. per day. There are large nurseries in and around the city, and it has important manufactures, notably of razors, optical frames, lenses, marine engines, preserved fruits and vegetables, canning machinery, enamelled ware and paste, with an aggregate output in 1927 valued at $9,531,935: Geneva was settled about 1787, near the site of a Seneca village (Kanadasega), which had been destroyed in 1779. The Indian burial mound, on the edge of the city, is still inviolate, in accordance with a pact made by the early settlers. A delegation from the Seneca Nation visits it annually to make sure that the agreement is kept. The city was chartered in 1898.