INLAND NAVIGATION.

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Canals of S we a en and Denmark—Canal of Trolhaetta in Sweden —Numerous Obfrullions and Impediments to its Completion—ProdigiousSums of Motiey and immense Labour that it has cos—Polhem em-ployed on it by Charles XII. — His Plan , after an incredible Expence,and the Labour of several Tears , proves abortive—Junction of theLake Hielmar with the Maeler by a Canal—function of the Maelerwith the Wen tier—Canal of Carlfgraf—Difficulty of paffing the Ca-t ar alls of Trolhaetta—Sluices cons ruled by Polhem described — Ac-count of the Canal of Kiel , in the Duchy of Holflein—Lengths Breadthsand Fall of this Canal—Its Utility , by felting a Jun&ion betweenthe Baltic and the German Ocean.

S WEDEN has long been sensible of the utility of inland naviga-tion. The following is a succinct account, principally extractedfrom the Travels of the judicious and accurate Mr. Coxe, of the mostremarkable works of this kind, that have been constructed or projectedin that country.

At the village of Trolhaetta in the province of Gothland, and on theriver Gotha, close to the cataracts of that river, and near the entranceinto the great lake Wenner, begins a stupendous work, intended toopen a passage for vessels, by means of a navigable canal, called fromthis place the canal of Trolhaetta.

This canal forms part of a plan long projected by the Swedes, to

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