The canals now cutting to the Delaware and Chesapeak will open acommunication from South Carolina to New Jersey, Delaware, themost populous parts of Penniylvania, and the midland counties of New-York. These important works have been surveyed ; and it is com-puted that they may be completed for two hundred thousand guineas.The United States of America will hereafter be converted into a clusterof large and fertile islands, communicating with each other with easeand little expence, and in many instances without the uncertainty ordanger of the sea.

The vast extent of fea-coast which spreads before these confederatedstates ; the number of excellent harbours and fea-port towns ; the nu-merous creeks and immense bays which indent the coast ; and the rivers,lakes, and canals which peninfulate the whole country, added to theagricultural advantages and improvements, give this part of the worldsuperior advantages for trade. Add to these their prospects from thefur trade of Canada, the vast settlements which are making at Pittsburgh,and in other parts in the neighbourhood of Canada, the advantages ofinland navigation by means of the lakes, the northern branches of theOhio, the Patomak, the Sufquehanna and the. Hudson, with manyother circumstances, depending not only on situation, but likewise onthe climate, &c. which must necessarily in a few years give them a largeshare of the fur trade.

On the north side of the mountains in Orange county, in the state ofNew-York, lies a very valuable tract, called the Drowned Lands, con-taining about fifty thousand acres. The waters which descend from thesurrounding hills being but slowly discharged by the river issuing fromthem, cover these vast meadows every winter, and render them ex-tremely fertile ; but they expose the inhabitants to intermittents. TheWallkill river, which passes through this extensive and amphibious tract,and empties itself into Hudson’s river, is in the spring stored with verylarge eels in the greatest plenty. The bottom of this river is a broken

rock;