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UNITED STATES. 



quainted with this country.* It may be howete]^ 

 remarked with propriety, that there is no country of 

 equal extent on the face of the globe, better or in- 

 deed so well watered as the United States. There 

 are few rivers in other quarters of the world, whose 

 sources are so distant from their months, or which 

 are navigable for so long a course. 



A fortunate peculiarity also attends our rivers, 

 viz. that though they may take their sources in one 

 state, they almost invariably pass through others ; 

 the same state sometimes commanding one, and 

 sometimes both banks ; these forming the strongest 

 ties of union ; inasmuch as both states are equally 

 interested in their undisturbed navigation. Thus the 

 river Connecticut passes through the states of Con* 

 necticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Ver- 

 mont. The North river, through New York and 

 New Jersey, and can easily be united v/ith the lakes 

 in Vermont, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. The Dela- 

 ware passes through Pennsylvania, New Jersey, 

 New York, and past Delaware. The Potowmac, 

 through Maryland, and Virginia ; and the Ohio 

 through New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and 

 Kentucky, receiving in a course of eleven hundred 

 and eighty-eight miles fifteen principal rivers, all 

 navigable, besides many smaller streams. The Sus- 

 quehannah, through Pennsylvania, New York and 

 Maryland ; and lastly, the Savannah, through South 

 Carolina and Georgia. 



There is, consequently, no country either s© 

 urated, or capable of being united, by means of na- 



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