NEW ENGLAND.

The only canal in New England, now em-
ployed for purposes of navigation, is the Cumber-
land and Oxford, 204 miles, from Portland to
Sebago Lake, to which the Tongo River im-
provement adds 30 miles of lake and river nav-
igation. The Middlesex Canal, 27 miles, from
Boston to Lowell, the Blackstone Canal, 45 miles,
from Worcester to Providence, and the Farmington
Canal, 78 miles, from New Haven to Northamp-
ton, have all been superseded by railroads. The
same is the case with the short canals constructed
for passing the various falls of the Connecticut
and Merrimac, the navigation of these rivers
having been mostly abandoned in favor of the
railroads along their banks.

NEW YORK.

The Champlain Canal extends from the Hudson
at Troy to Lake Champlain, at Whitehall, 64
miles. The Erie Canal extends from the Hud-
son, at Albany, to Lake Erie, at Buffalo, 364
miles. This latter canal sends off branches, as
follows: Black River, from Rome to Carthage,
774 miles, with a feeder from Brownville,10 miles ;
Chenango, from Utica to Binghampton, 97 miles ;
Oswego, from Syracuse to Oswego, 38 miles :
Cayuga and Seneca, from Montezuma to "Geneva,
21 miles, tributary to which are the Crooked
Lake Canal, 3 miles, from Dresden to Penn Yan,
and the Chemung, 39 miles, from Jefferson, at
the head of Seneca Lake to Elmira; finally, the
Genesee Valley Canal, from Rochester to Olean,
on the Alleghany, 1084 miles, with a branch from
Mount Morris to Danville, 11 miles. Works are
in progress to unite this New York system with
the Pennsylvania and Susquehanna system, by
■canals extending from Binghampton and Elmira
to the Pennsylvania line. All the above, except
the junction canals last mentioned, are state
works. The Delaware and Hudson Canal ex-
tends from the Hudson, at the mouth of the
Esopus Creek, to the Delaware, at Port Jervis,
and thence up that river to the mouth of the
Lackawaxen, along which it is continued by the
Lackawaxen Canal to Honesdale, in Pennsyl-
vania, in the whole 110 miles. The whole length
■of canals in New York is near 1000 miles.

NEW JERSEY.

The Delaware and Raritan Canal, 42 miles, from
Bordentown to New Brunswick, opens an internal
sloop navigation from Philadelphia to New York.
The Morris Canal, 102 miles, from Jersey City,
opposite New York, to Easton, on the Delaware,
communicates with the Lehigh navigation, ahd
the Pennsylvania Delaware Canal.

PENNSYLVANIA.

Has a canal system still more extensive than that
of New York. Commencing at.the head of
navigation in the Susquehanna at Havre de
Grace in Maryland, the Tideioater Canal extends
45 miles, to Wrightsville, opposite the termination
of the Columbia Railroad, from Philadelphia.
Thence the navigation is continued by the
Eastern Division of the Pennsylvania Canal, 444
miles to the mouth of the Juniata, from which
point the Juniata Canal extends W. 1274 miles to
Hollidaysburg. The Susquehanna Canal continues
N. from the mouth of the Juniata, 39 miles, to the
junction of the N. and W. branches of the Sus-
quehanna, whence the West Branch Canal proceeds
to Lock Haven, 75 miles, whence the Bold Ea-
gle Canal extends 22 miles, farther, to Belle Eonte,
at the foot of the main Alleghany ridge. The
North Branch Canal extends from the junction of
the two branches, 73 miles, to Wilkesbarre, and
has been continued thence by a private company
90 miles, to the New York line; from which point
two short canals, now in progress to Binghampton
and Elmira, will connect this Susquehanna system
with the New York canals. The other canals in
the eastern part of Pennsylvania, besides the
Lackawaxen, already mentioned, a continuation of
the Delaware and Hudson, are the Lehigh Naviga-
tion, 464 miles, to Mauch Chunk, and to the falls
at Stoddardsville, 414 miles farther; the Deleware
division of the Pennsylvania Canal, from Bristol,
at the head of sloop navigation on the Delaware,
60 miles, to Easton, where it communicates with
the Lehigh navigation, and with the Morris Canal ;
the Schuylkill Navigation, from Philadelphia via
Reading, to Port Carbon, 108 miles; and the
Union Canal, from Reading westward to the
Susquehanna, 82 miles. The Portage Railroad,
66 miles, over the mountains from Holljdays-