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1st. The Saluda Canal, two miles and a lialf long, with five locks, over- 

 comino; a fall of thirty-four feet. 



2d. Drehr's Canal, one mile long, and with four locks, overcoming a 

 fall of twenty-one feet. 



3rd. Lonck's Canal, which has a single lock of six feet lift. 



The Pee Dee river rises in North Carolina (where it is called the Yad- 

 kin), and enters Winyaw Bay, above Georgetown. To Cheraw, above 

 120 miles from the ocean, it has a good steamboat navigation ; from 

 Cheraw to the North Carolina line, nine miles, there is a fall, on a regular 

 inclined plane, of eighteen feet, and above that line the rapids extend to 

 the narrows, about seven miles by water, where the fall is very great. 

 Above the narrows to the mountains this river is represented as favorable 

 for small boat navigation. Tt heads near New river, one of the main 

 branches of the Great Kenawha. 



The Little Pee Dee rises in the sand hills in North Carolina, and is 

 navigable from Lumberton. 



The Black river is navigable to the line of Sumter district, about sixty 

 miles from its entrance into Winyah bay. 



Lynch's creek is navigable eighty miles, and Black creek thirty miles 

 from their junction with the Big Pee Dee; 



The Edisto discharges into the ocean by two mouths, called North and 

 South Edisto inlets. It rises in the region of sand hills in two branches, 

 which unite below Orangeburg; both branches and the main river are 

 navigable, having no shoals. It has been contemplated to unite this 

 river with the Ashley, by a canal fourteen miles, extending from near 

 Gweham's ferry to Dorchester. The Edisto will form the feeder ; the 

 ridge between the two streams is only thirteen feet high, and less than 

 a half mile through. This canal will save eighty miles of difficult, and, 

 in some places, dangerous navigation between the upper Edisto and 

 Charleston. 



The Combahee has a schooner navigation to Saltcatcher bridge, and 

 the main Saltcatcher is navigable for boats ten miles higher. It may 

 be made navigable to Barnw^ell Court House by merely removing logs 

 which now obstruct it. 



The Waccamaw river rises in AVaccamaw lake, near the Cape Fear 

 river. From this lake it is navigable for boats to Conwayborough, and 

 from that place to Winyah bay it is navigable for schooners. From Win- 

 yah bay to Santee river the Winyah Canal, six miles long, has been 

 partly executed, and from the Santee to the head of the Owendaw there 

 is good schooner navigation. From the head of the Owendaw to schooner 

 navigation on the Wando, the distance is about eight miles, a canal here 

 would reciuire only eight feet depth of digging to be fed with tide 



