Osage 302 



White 779 



Little White 48 



Big Hatchie 75 



Sunflower 271 



Tallahatchie 175 



Red 986 



Cypress 44 



Black 61 



Bartholomew 100 



Macon 60 



Atchafalaya 218 



St Francis 180 



Black 147 



Arkansas 884 



Issaquena 161 



Yazoo 228 



Big Black 35 



Cane 54 



Ouachita 384 



Boeuf 55 



Tensas 112 



Teche 91 



D'Arbonne 50 



Lafourche 168 



The other ten navigable tributaries have less than fifty miles each of 

 navigation. The total miles of navigation of these fifty-five streams is about 

 16,500 miles, or about two- thirds the distance around the world. The 

 Mississippi and its tributaries may be estimated to possess 15,550 miles navi- 

 gable to steamboats, and 20,221 miles navigable to barges. 



The Longest and Greatest Rivers in the World. 



Name. Mil*-?. 



Amazon 3,600 



Nile 3,000 



Missouri, to its junction with 



the Mississippi 2,900 



Missouri, to the sea, forming 



the longest in the world ... 4,100 



Mississippi, proper 2,800 



Lena 2,600 



Niger, or Jobila 2,600 



Obe 2,500 



St. Lawrence 2,200 



Madeira 2,000 



Arkansas 2 ooo 



Volga 2,000 



Rio Grande 1,800 



Danube 1,600 



St. Francisco 1,300 



Columbia 1,200 



Nebraska 1,200 



Name. Miles. 



Red River 1,200 



Colorado in California 1,100 



Yellowstone 1,000 



Ohio 950 



Rhine 950 



Kansas 900 



Tennessee 800 



Red River of the North 700 



Cumberland 600 



Alabama 600 



Susquehanna 500 



Potomac 500 



James 500 



Connecticut 450 



Delaware 400 



Hudson 350 



Kennebec 300 



Thames 233 



The Great Canals of the World. 



The Imperial canal of China is over 1,000 miles long. In the year of 

 I 86 1 was completed the greatest undertaking of the kind on the European 

 continent, the canal of Languedoc, or the Canal du Midi, to connect the 

 Atlantic with the Mediterranean; its length is 148 miles, it has more than 

 loo locks, and about 50 aqueducts, and its highest part is no less than 600 feet 



