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Creek, 88-85; Sassafras River, 14-20. All of 

 tho routes will bo easy to dredge and keep free 

 from silt and filling up. The various routes 

 are briefly described as follows : 



Tho Queenstown route starts at tho mouth of tho 

 Chester River, nt Queenstown, and proceeds thence in 

 a straight line over u high ana generally flat country 

 to Broad Kill Creek, and thence through the marshes 

 to the Delaware Bay, near Lewes, 681 miles from 

 Quoenstown. 



Tlio Centroville route leaves Chesapeake Bay 27* 

 miles from Baltimore, and passes through a shallow 

 "jut" into Chester River, 84 miles from its mouth, by 

 this cut gnitiiiiL,' s miles. It proceed* up tho Chester 

 Kivor to Corsica Creek, 51 miles, thence in nearly a 

 straight line over a flat country ranging from 65 to 75 

 feet above tide, entering Delaware Bay at the same 

 point as the Ferry Creek and Quecnstown line, tho 

 distance from Corsica Creek being 51 miles. 



The Wye River route enters Wye River from East- 

 ern Bay (the debouchure of Miles River), passes up to 

 head ot tide at Skipton Creek, thence directly to Mil- 

 ford, Delaware, 87t miles. The ridge between the 

 bays at these points does not exceed 60 feet. 



The Southeast Creek route enters Chester River as 

 by Centreville route, ascends that river 12 miles to 

 Southeast Creek, follows the latter 21 miles, thence in 

 n straight line 29 miles over a flat country 60 to 70 

 feet above low water to Little Creek, on the Delaware. 

 It follows this marshy creek for 84 miles, reaching 

 Delaware Bay at a point 80 miles abave Lewes. 



The Sassafras route passes from Baltimore 30 miles 

 up the Chesapeake Bay, and up the Sassafras River 16* 

 miles over a flat country rising to 80 feet at summit. 

 It then crosses tho ridge by Blackbird Creek, entering 

 Delaware Bay 14t miles from the head of tide on Sas- 

 safras River and about one mile from a point giving 24 

 feet water on the bay. 



The Ferrv Creek route leaves the Choptank River 

 about 25 miles above its mouth, passes through low 

 country and marshy grounds to the Nanticoke River, 

 up the latter for 12 miles in navigable water and 4 

 miles farther in shoal water, then over a sandy coun- 

 try of height ranging from 7 to 50 feet, to the Dela- 

 ware Bay, 8 miles above Lewes, following the bed of 

 Broadkill Creek. 



The following are the estimates for a ship- 

 canal 26 feet deep at low tide, and 100 feet 

 wide at bottom and 178 feet wide at surface 

 of canal: Ferry Creek route, $16,412,312; 

 Wye River, $26,554,498; Queenstown, $37,- 

 261,235; Centreville, $41,556,000; Southeast 

 Creek, $24,825,350; Sassafras, $8,085,330. 

 The cost will be greatly reduced if the canal 

 be made but 75 feet wide at bottom. The re- 

 port recommends the Queenstown route, and 

 that it be built under the supervision of the 

 War Department. 



The fruit crops of the State were large. The 

 heart of the fruit country is that section of 

 Kent County directly around the State capital, 

 Dover. It is there that the great evaporating 

 and canning establishments cluster thickest, 

 and at the capital itself, which from its posi- 

 tion is an admirable center, the greater part of 

 the business between the fruit-growers and 

 their customers from the outer world is trans- 

 acted. Next to Dover, the district about Mil- 

 ford, on tho Junction and Breakwater Rail- 

 road, farther south, forms another point of at- 

 traction, with its extensive establishments for 

 "putting up" the fruit. The entire fruit dis- 

 trict is now estimated at 29,500 acres. At the 



same time farming in many sections is very in- 

 different and unsatisfactory. This has led to 

 the consideration of the culture of beets for 

 the manufacture of sugar. During the year a 

 large factory for its manufacture was erected 

 near Edge Moor, on the Delaware River. 

 About 810 tons of beets were received as the 

 full crop, and some 40,000 pounds of melado 

 had been manufactured. 



DENMARK, a kingdom of Northern Eu- 

 rope. The reigning sovereign is Christian IX., 

 fourth son of the late Duke William of Schles- 

 wig-Ilolstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, appoint- 

 ed to the succession of the Danish crown by 

 the Treaty of London of May 8, 1852, and by 

 the Danish law of succession of July 81, 1853. 

 He succeeded to the throne on the death of 

 King Frederick VII., November 15, 1863. He 

 was married May 26, 1842, to Louise, Princess 

 of Hesse-Cassel. The heir apparent is Prince 

 Frederick, born June 3, 1843, and married 

 July 28, 1869, to Louisa, only daughter of 

 King Charles XV. of Sweden. Their children 

 are three sons, born in 1870, 1872, and 1876, 

 and a daughter, born in 1875. The King has 

 a civil list of 500,000 rigsdalers, and the heir 

 apparent of 60,000 rigsdalers. The present 

 ministry was formed on June 11, 1875, and at 

 the close of 1879 was composed as follows: 

 President of the Council and Minister of Fi- 

 nance, J. B. S. Estrup ; Minister of the Inte- 

 rior, E. V. R. Skeel ; Minister of Justice and 

 Minister for Iceland, J. M. V. Nelleman ; Min- 

 ister of Worship and Public Instruction, J. C. 

 H. Fischer; Minister of Foreign Affairs, O. 

 D. Baron Rosenorn-Lehn, appointed October 

 11, 1875 ; Minister of War, General Kaufmann, 

 appointed January 4, 1879; and Minister of 

 the Navy, Commodore Ravn, January 4, 1879. 



The area of Denmark proper, inclusive of 

 lakes, is 14,753 square miles; of European 

 dependencies (Faroe Islands and Iceland), 40,- 

 268 square miles; of American possessions 

 (Greenland, St. John, St. Thomas, and St. 

 Croix), 759,000 square miles. The population 

 of Denmark proper, according to the census 

 of 1870, was 1,784,781 ; and in 1878 it was 

 estimated at 1,940,000. The population of the 

 dependencies in 1870 was 127,401, and in 

 1878, 180,400. The emigration from Denmark 

 in 1878 amounted to 2,972. 



The annual financial accounts, called atato- 

 regnskdb, for the years 1875-'76, 1876-'77, and 

 1877-'78 (the financial year closes on March 

 81st), were as follows (in crowns 1 crown = 

 27 cents) : 



In the budget estimates for the financial year 

 ending March 81, 1880, the revenue was esti- 

 mated at 46,847,086 crowns, the expenditure 

 at 40,909,737 crowns, and the probable surplus 



