INLAND NAVIGATION.

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great as to reduce the declivity, on which the water ran, to less thanfour inches per mile.

“ The medium rate of motion of the Ganges is less than three milesan hour in the dry months. In the wet season, and during the drain-ing the waters from the inundated lands, the current runs from five tosix miles an hour; but there are instances of its running seven andeight miles an hour.”

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