INLAND NAVIGATION.

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These canals, already finished, measure in length eight hundredand fifty-eight thousand toises, or one thousand nine hundred andthirty-nine English miles.

Besides the before-mentioned canals, which are finished, there are agreat number of others projected, to find employment for the soldiery.I shall here enumerate some of them which have come within my ownobservation.

From the city of Valenciennes a canal is marked out, to pass byQuesnoy into the river Sambre, near to the town of Berlarmont. It isto be called the canal of Quesnoy.

From the village of Hennecourt a canal is marked out near Cam-bray, on the river Scheld, to join that canal which is finished, andwhich I have before mentioned, at St. Quentin, called the canal ofPicardy. This canal is intended to go from St. Quentin to Sissy onthe Oife, and is to be called the canal of Souterin. This canal, whenfinished, will join the Scheld with the Oife.

Another canal is marked out higher up the Oife, at the town ofGuire, to join it to the Sambre at Fenny (or Ferney) near to thetown of Landrecy.

Another canal is marked out from the Oife below the canal ofPicardy, at Chauny, to go to Laon, and return with a sharp angle intothe river Vette at Anify. It is to be called the canal of Laon.

From the river Somrae, near the city of Amiens, a canal is markedout to pass by Corbie, Bray, and Peronne, to Ham, and join the canalof Picardy near the last town, which consequently will join the Sommewith the Oife.

Another canal is marked out from the Oife at the village of Oriel,

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