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the summer is very shallow, owing to Enfield Falls. 

 Boats pass these falls through a canal eight miles long, 

 with numerous locks. The steamer passes through 

 Windsor Locks, where Paper Mills and other manu- 

 factories extend along the river for a considerable 

 distance. 



The manufactures of Connecticut are too numerous 

 to mention. At Waterville, a capital of $125,000 is 

 employed in making pocket cutlery ; two hundred 

 hands are employed in the establishment. At Water- 

 bury, the American Pin Company employ 80 hands, 

 "who make one thousand packs of pins per day, of 

 twelve papers per pack ; also make two thousand gross 

 of hooks and eyes daily. There are also at this place 

 various button manufactories, some of which employ 

 two hundred hands, and turn out $350,000 worth of 

 goods annually, &c., &c. 



Windsor, six miles distant, is one of the oldest towns 

 in Connecticut, and rich in meadow land ; the scenery 

 is very beautiful. The Connecticut river passes 

 through a valley of twelve thousand square miles, em- 

 bellished with towns and villages in every direction, 

 presenting to the eye a lovely landscape of nature and 

 art. Salmon formerly were very plentiful in this 



