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ilg“°ve rivers are not only navigable to a very con- 
< but have so many creeks, and receive 
Hi;,; '"^®r of smaller navigable rivers, as to render the 
I to all parts of the 
parts Oi‘ the country inconceivably 
Abeil®^^'?to\vmac is navigable for neariy two' hundred 
miles in breadth, at its mouth, and not less 
ate ' ^ considerable distance. The other three 
h % a ' upwards of eighty miles ; and in their. 
i^Sii r^Pproach so near to each otlrer, that the distance 
T'ti in some i^arts is not more than five miks, 
if '®Co.f ^ not exceed ten. 
rises in the State of New Hampshire, 
AcQ^-'^egvees of latitude, and pursues a remarkably 
V to the south, discharging its waters into the 
,i!y,l|Posue - . . . . 
K,! its 
Long Island. About one hundred and 
-oyu - “■> source, - , ' 
of , ’^ater being enclosed by two rocks within 
Q °wt thirty feet, and falling into a broad bason 
V an . ''er these rocks a bridge has been thrown witli 
j>a. ®'’ation as to be inaccessible to the highest 
Wftiiig ’ or Nobth River, rises within about 
'j FSes ih ir ^*-E George, and, ninning to the south, 
^oi t Hook, the entrance of tlie river 
V K- as k , L is navigable for vessels of a moderate 
§h as Albany, a distance of one hundred and 
are the rapids, or thlls, oc- 
asiatic rivers. 
the GANGES. 
S(t5Wic^''l*^odc and extent the Ganges is a most nohla 
^ It rises in the kingdom of Thibet ; 
fifg. about the thirtieth degree of latitude, 
,h tig. ®outh-eastward by’' thti cities of llckancr, 
^ *f '^ivid^ Leiiarcs, and Patna, to Rajah jNiahl, 
The e-istern having 
file capital ofJJer.gal, enters the gulf 
ti( ‘y 'oto two brandies. 
Chatigan. Tlic western, descending 
\or ^'-'d Hughly, falls into the gult below 
'owards Pipdi Ma.iy of the Jews and 
