LOCOMOTION BY EIVER AND RAILWAY. 



hundred deck passengers, besides the cabin passengers. The 

 traffic in goods and passengers of the entire extent of the immense 

 valley of the Mississippi is carried by these vessels, except that 

 portion which is floated down by the stream in a species of raft 

 called flat-boats. 



22. This line of steam-navigation is continued up the Mississippi, 

 branching east and west along its great tributaries. The Ohio 

 carries it eastwards as far as Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania. A canal 

 connects the Ohio at Cincinnati with Lake Erie. The navigation 

 of the Upper Mississippi is continued by the Illinois river to a port 

 near Lake Michigan, with which it is connected by a canal 

 extending to Chicago, on the western shore of that lake. Here 

 commences the great chain of lake steam-navigation, which 

 extends across the northern division of the States, traversing 

 Lakes Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, and being continued 

 along the St. Lawrence, to Montreal and Quebec. The lakes are 

 connected by canals. 



By the Erie canal, connecting the lake of that name with the 

 head of the Hudson navigation at Albany, the circuit of navigation 

 round the United States is completed. 



