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Hocking, and will be extended to Athens, and even to the Ohio 

 river, perhaps, if practicable. This canal will be from seventy 

 to one hundred miles in length. 



In Licking county is a canal made, from the main trunk to 

 Granville. Still ascending to Dresden where we find the 

 main canal is connected with the Muskingum river, by a dam 

 and lock. By a series of dams, short canals and locks, along 

 the last mentioned river, now in a state of forwardness as to 

 completion, this water communication will be finished to the 

 Ohio, at the mouth of the Muskingum at Marietta. 



The next canal, connected with the main one, as we ascend 

 it, --is the Walhonding canal, at Roscoe. This is making 

 now, that is, about thirty miles of it, are soon to be finished. 

 Ascending to Bolivar, in Tuscarawas county, (three miles or 

 more from Zoar,) at the mouth of Sandy creek, a canal is 

 making and will be finished, one hundred miles Jong. This 

 canal connects Bolivar with the town of Beaver, on the Ohio riv- 

 er, thirty miles below Pittsburgh. Starting from near Beaver, 

 another canal is rapidly making to mtersect the main canal at or 

 near Akron. The former passes by New Lisbon, the latter, by 

 Warren, in Trumbull county. These last named canals are 

 about equal in length and in their cost. Their length is one 

 hundred miles, each, and their cost, one million of dollars each, 

 or upwards. Though owned by private companies, in part, • 

 now, the state will soon be the sole oAvner of them. 



THE MIAMI AND MAUMEE CANAL, 



. Extends from Cincinnati to Piqua, passing Middletown, 

 Dayton &c. It is now finished the distance of one hundred 

 miles and is rapidly extending northwards towards lake Erie. 

 It is navigated about one hundred miles. Thirty miles of this 

 canal extending from Piqua towards lake Erie, are now mak- 

 ing, and an equal or greater distance, is extending from the 

 mouth of Maumee bay at the lake, up the Maumee river. 

 This canal will, when completed, be the longest one in this 

 state. Where it touches the eastern line of Indiana, it will be 



