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UNITED STATES, 



Delaware* 



The river Delaware rises in the state of New 

 Yorkj and is formed by the union of the Mohawk 

 and Popachton branches, and flowing south it divides 

 the states of New York and New Jersey on the east 

 from Pennsylvania on the west : in lat. 41 deg, 24 

 n)in. it strikes the north-west corner of New Jersey, 

 and then enters the Atlantic, between cape May in 

 New Jersey, and cape Henlopen^in the state of Dela- 

 ware, on the Vv'est. 



From the line between the states of Pennsylvania 

 and New York, down to the falls of the Cushicton, 

 the stream is very regular, and contains very few 

 obstructions to the navigation : all the rocks in that 

 distance, of any consequence, might be removed for 

 less than two hundred dollars : this part of the river 

 ■would then, in times of freshes, be completely navi* 

 gable ; but, in times of very low waters, it cannot be 

 navigated with boats of any burthen. 



At the Cushicton falls the river is divided into 

 three channels. Two large rocks lie loose upon the 

 point above the falls^ which cause the currents to 

 shoot across, with great violence, into the winding 

 channel, on the east side of the river. These rocks^ 

 being renaoved, a sufficient body of water would enter 

 the channel west to Pennsylvania, where the pas- 

 sages must direct, ^'rom the Cushicton falls to the 

 Narrows, the river continues in a line stream, but be^ 

 low the Narrows the bed of the ri^^er is more rocky, 

 and the stream more rapid. At a place called the 

 Foul-rift, the water passes through with very great 



