INLAND NAVIGATION.

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Maryland fide are the Monocasy, Antietam, and Conegocheague ; someof which pass through the state of Maryland, and have their sources inPennsylvania.

From Fort Cumberland (or Will’s Creek) one or two good waggonroads may be made, by which the distance will be about sive-and-thirtymiles to the Yohogany, a large and navigable branch Of the Mononga-hela ; which last forms a junction with the Allegany at Fort Pitt, fromwhence the river takes the name of the Ohio, until that also loses its cur-rent and name in the Mististippi.

But by pasting farther up the Patomak than Fort Cumberland, whichmay very easily be done, a portage by a good waggon road to the Cheatriver, another branch of the Monongahela, may be obtained, througha space which some fay is about twenty-sive miles.

When we have arrived at either of these western waters, the naviga-tion through that immense country is opened in a thousand directions,and to the lakes in several places by portages of less than ten miles, andby one portage of one mile only.

Notwithstanding it was fneeringly said by some foreigners, at the be-ginning of this undertaking, that the Americans were fond of engagingin splendid projects, which they could never accomplish ; yet it is hopedthe success of this first essay towards improving their inland navigationwill, in some degree, rescue them from the reproach intended to havebeen fixed upon their national character by the unmerited imputation.

The great Kanhaway is a river of considerable note. The principalobstacle to its navigation begins at what are called the Great Falls, ninetymiles above the mouth, below which are only five or six rapids, andthese pastable, with some difficulty, even at low water. From the fallsto the mouth of Green-briar river is one hundred miles ; and thence to

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