By the Illinois and Michigan Canal the ocean lakes communicate with the Mississippi; and when the channel is made by Lake Nipissing, there will be an unbroken watercourse between New Orleans, New York, Bytown, and Quebec.
There are upwards of 5000 miles of canal in America.
Vide an able paper on railways, written by that officer and published in that valuable work, Aide Mémoire to the Military Sciences; or for fuller particulars the reader is referred to Report on the Railways of the United States, by Capt. Douglas Galton, R.N., recently issued.
This is without the expenses arising from law and parliamentary proceedings.
I believe the railway from Charleston to Savannah was entirely laid down on this plan.