G24 TRANSPORTATION IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 



water. Boats descend from Andersonville with seventy bales of cotton, 

 or ten tons. The Tugaloo is navigable for similar boats twenty-five miles, 

 to Pulaski, and the Seneca twenty-six miles, or six miles above Pendleton 

 Court House. At the junction of Twelve Mile Creek the Seneca changes 

 its name to Keowee, which is capable of being made navigable entirely 

 within the mountains by merely sluicing. The Tugaloo branch of the 

 Savannah rises in the mountains, a short distance from the Hiwassee, a 

 navigable branch of the Tennessee river. By means of these streams it 

 is believed the Southern Atlantic may be connected with the Western 

 States by a navigable canal. The general government have ordered sur- 

 veys to be made to ascertain its practicability. 



The Santee river enters the ocean by two mouths. There is a good 

 steamboat navigation on this stream to the junction of the Congaree and 

 Wateree, and up both these rivers to Camden and Columbia. (The 

 Wateree changes its name to Catawba at the Wateree creek). This river, 

 above Camden to the North Carolina line, is interruj)ted by four principal 

 falls, around which canals have been cut, except at Rocky Mount, where 

 the work is now going on. The first fall is at the Wateree Canal, which 

 is five miles long, with a width of fifty -two feet, and having six locks ; 

 the second is at Rocky Mount, where there is a fall of 121 feet, requiring 

 thirteen locks. The canal here is cut the greatest part of the distance. 

 The third fall is at the Catawba canal, where there is a fall of fifty-six 

 fjet in three miles. The canal and seven locks here are finished. The 

 Iburtli fall is at Landsford, where a canal two miles long, with five locks, 

 completes the navigation. Above this the river has rapids, but the small 

 boat navigation can be extended with care within the Alleghany moun- 

 tains. The Congaree is formed by the confluence of the Broad and 

 Saluda rivers, where there is a fall of thirty-four feet, which is overcome 

 by a canal three miles long, and five locks. On the Broad river, the 

 navigation for small boats extends to King's creek, with the aid of Lock- 

 hart's Canal, which overcomes a fall of fifty-one feet by seven locks in 

 two miles. Above King's creek there are several rapids and extensive 

 falls ; locks would be requisite to make good navigation here, and when 

 these are once passed, the navigation to the foot of the mountains is only 

 obstructed by a few^ rapids. Green river, a main branch of Broad river, 

 extends to a point in the Blue Ridge (properly the Alleghany) where this 

 mountain is very low and narrow ; on the opposite side of the mountain 

 rises the French Broad, a large branch of the Tennessee. It is confi- 

 dently presumed that the Atlantic and Western waters may be united 

 here by a navigal)le canal with great comparative ease. 



The Saluda river is navigable 120 miles above Columbia. There are 

 three canals on it : 



