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the lead mines is one hundred and twenty. It is two hundred an deighty yards wide at its mouth.

The little Kanhaway is one hundred and fifty yards wide at themouth ; it affords a navigation of ten miles only. Perhaps its northernbranch, called Junius Creek, which interlocks with the western watersof Monongahela, may one day admit a shorter passage from the latterinto the Ohio.

In the state of North Carolina is a place called Dismal Swamp, whichspreads over the whole tract of country which lies between Pamlico andAlbemarle sounds, and needs no other description than is conveyed byits name. There is another large swamp, north of Edenton, which lierpartly in this state and partly in Virginia.

This swamp is owned by two companies ; the Virginia company, oFwhich General Washington is a member, holds a hundred thousand acres,and the North Carolina company about forty thousand acres. It is incontemplation to cut a canal through this swamp, from the head of Pas-quetank to the head of Elizabeth river, twelve or fourteen miles in length,,which will drain this at present useless ground, and convert it to be thebest in the state.

These are the principal particulars which at present can be given ofthis extensive country with respect to its improvements by canals andinland navigation. A great number of other cuts have been planned,which will make that country in a few years not inferior to the bestcultivated and improved states in the old world. 1

I shall conclude my observations on North America with the follow-ing extract from the Journals of Mr. Elkanah Watson, a gentlemanwho has travelled much both in Europe and America.

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