amkiuca:^ river#. 
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side, are the fine rivers HonsoN, DelawaHE' 
PoTOWMAC, SusaUEUA(«fA, CONNECTICUT, 
others of extensive length, and great depth. 
flow westw.ard , and discharge themselves into 
imnpv^irtlv known r thf* OnF.GAf’^ .^i^j 
ocean, are but imperfectly known : the OREG.\>'>^^jpf‘j 
called the Columbia, or kiveb of the west, 
to be the largest, and, so far as it has been 
been found to be of such a breadth and depth, itt' 
as to lead to a conjecture that it hikes iis rise in t’'- ^ 
pai't of the American continent. - pci'J’y 
The Delaware, the largest river in the state o j! , 
vania, rises in die countiy of the five nations; 
into tlie sea at Delaware bay. It is navigabl^j^g 
a hundred and 
a hundred r.nd fifty miles, Avhen falls occur. _ 
nients on this river extend 
from the city of Philadelphia, which is 
westward, on its bank, afid to the eastward on 
seat‘d' 
b^. [je 
which the Delaware joins a few miles below Pbj 
I’he SusauEHANNA rises in tlie same state, at ^ 
of ninety miles from the Apalachian mountains; t® f 
first soul h-we.st, and then south-east, nearly P^'g)i 
Delaware, till it discharges itself into Chesap® 
^larj'land. This river is likewise navigable to a_^ 
distance in the interior of the country, , jii‘‘-' afi 
exceeds the other tii the pleasantness and w ^ 
soil on its banks. The Schulkill, ^b'eadf^^jgatj, V 
runs parallel to the other two rivers, and is J,if 
at least a hundred miles in the interior. 
with the numerous bays and creeks in Delawa^^^ tl> 
is cajiable of containing the largest fleets, 
■••ince admirably suited for carr}dng on a foreign \ f 
On the side of Virginia, James Rivek, fV 
ihe Rappahanock., and the Potomac, flo'^ . j(S v 
of ChesapeaU, which is enriched throngin^^rs- 
extent by a vast nmnbcr of fine ivivigahle , j/ 
bay is one of the finest and largest in tiic iti'b’rt'ify 
for it enters the country nearly dirce Inindrc yvy, 
tiic south to file nonli, having die eastern 
and a part of Virginia, on the same penn'^n ‘ jl 
it Imm the Atlaniic ocean. Its breadth i"'- 
disuincc is nearly eighteen railes, and scV^n 
nartowest. 
