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what farther to the west ; but the evidence on which he makes this 

 assertion is by no means clear and conclusive. After a north.eastern 

 course of many hundred miles, it discharges its waters into a large 

 gulf, extending from 45 3& to 51 north latitude ; the islands of 

 Newfoundland and Cape Breton lying between it and the great At- 

 lantic Ocean. The river is navigable for large ships as high a* 

 Quebec, which is four hundred miles from its mouth ; farther up, 

 shoals and rocks impede its navigation. The French, while in pos- 

 session of Canada, industriously exaggerated the difficulties and 

 clangers attending the navigation of this river ; but since the English 

 Lave possessed the country, the utmost attention has been bestowed 

 to form accurate charts of it, and to give every kind of assistance for 

 its safe navigation. In executing these designs., Captain Cook was 

 for some time employed, before he became a circumnavigator, in 

 performing which his great abilities were first di;covered, aud the 

 foundation laid for his future fame. 



HUDSON'S, or the NORTH RIVER, rises within about twenty miles 

 of Lake Gcorge t and runs to the south, discharging itself at New 

 York, or Sandy Hook. This river is navigable lor vessels of one 

 hundred tons, as high as Albany, which is a course of one hundred 

 and fifty miles, and shallops may go up eight or ten miles higher. 



The largest river in the state of Pennsylvania is the DELAWARE, 

 which rises in the country of the Five Nations, and flows into the sea 

 at Delaware-bay. It is navigable for near an huudred and fifty miles 

 up, after which it has some falls ; the settlements upon this river 

 extend an hundred and fifty miles from the eity of Philadelphia, 

 which is seated on its banks to the westward, and on the Schoolkil! 

 to the eastward, which it joins a few miles below Philadelphia. The 

 lands on the banks of the Delaware are excellent. Its course is 

 nearly south-east, and it affords great plenty of all such fishes as 

 are common to the climate, especially sturgeon, which are here 

 cured, and exported in greater abundance than iu any other part of 

 America. 



The SUSQUEHANNA rises in the same country, at the distance of 

 ninety miles from the Apalachian mountains, aud runs at first south- 

 west, and then south-east, nearly parallel to the Delaware, till it 

 discharges itself into Chesapeak-bay, in Maryland. This river is 

 likewise navigable a great way up the interior country, and, if pos- 

 sible, exceeds the other in the pleasantness and fertility of the 



