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tural and artificial navigation. The colkctions of 

 water are so immense, and so advantageously situ- 

 ated, that we may expect with the progressive re- 

 sources of the country, to see the most stupendous 

 canals cut, uniting long rivers flowing in opposite di- 

 rections, and taking their courses to distant and dif- 

 ferent seas. 



The sea coast of all North America, offers equal 

 advantages for foreign commerce, by the numerous 

 and extensive bays indenting it, and which are 

 equal in size to any on the globe. In the north there 

 are the bays of St. Lawrence, Chedabucte, Che- 

 bueto, and Fundy, in Nova Scotia. Continuing the 

 enumeration southwardly, we have the bays of Pas- 

 saraaquoddy, Penobscot, and Casco, lying along the 

 state of Maine: Massachusetts bay, Naraganset, 

 Long Island sound, communicating at both ends with 

 the ocean ; Delaware bay, sixty miles long, and 

 eighteen wide from cape to cape ; the Chcsapeak, 

 one hundred and fifty miles long, and from seven ta 

 eighteen miles broad, and nine fathoms deep ; and 

 the bay St. Simoa*s in Cleorgia* 



