----------------+------+
YSusquehanna River, empties into Chesapeake Bay Y 460Y
+-----------------------------------------------------+------+
YIllinois River, a branch of the Mississippi Y 430Y
+-----------------------------------------------------+------+
YAppalachicola River, empties into the Gulf of Mexico Y 425Y
+-----------------------------------------------------+------+
YSt John's River, New Brunswick, rises in Maine Y 415Y
+-----------------------------------------------------+------+
YConnecticut River, empties into Long Island Sound Y 410Y
+-----------------------------------------------------+------+
YWabash River, a branch of the Ohio Y 360Y
+-----------------------------------------------------+------+
YDelaware River, empties into the Atlantic Ocean Y 355Y
+-----------------------------------------------------+------+
YJames River, empties into Chesapeake Bay Y 350Y
+-----------------------------------------------------+------+
YRoanoke River, empties into Albemarle Sound Y 350Y
+-----------------------------------------------------+------+
YGreat Pedee River, empties into Atlantic Ocean Y 350Y
+-----------------------------------------------------+------+
YSantee River, empties into Atlantic Ocean Y 340Y
+-----------------------------------------------------+------+
YPotomac River, empties into Chesapeake Bay Y 335Y
+-----------------------------------------------------+------+
YHudson River, empties into Atlantic Ocean Y 320Y
+-----------------------------------------------------+------+
YAltamaha River, empties into Atlantic Ocean Y 300Y
+-----------------------------------------------------+------+
YSavannah River, empties into Atlantic Ocean Y 290Y
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Voice from America.

Many of the largest of these rivers are at present running through
deserts--others possess but a scanty population on their banks; but, as
the west fills up, they will be teeming with life, and the harvest of
industry will freight many more hundreds of vessels than those which at
present disturb their waters.

The Americans have an idea that they are very far ahead of us in steam
navigation, a great error which I could not persuade them of. In the
first place, their machinery is not by any means equal to ours; in th