Cayahoga and Beaver may be removed by uniting the fources of thefe waters, which are lakes in the neigh- bourhood of each other, and in a cham- paign country; the other from the waters of Ohio to Patowmac will be from 15 to 40 miles, according to the trouble which ihall be taken to approach the two navigations. For the trade of the Ohio, or that which Ihall come into it from its own waters or the Miflifipi, it is nearer through the Patowmac to Alexandria than to New-York by 580 miles, and it is in- terrupted by one portage only. There is another circumftance of difference too. The lakes themfelves never freeze, but the communications between them freeze, and the Hudfon's river is itfelf Ihut-up by the ice three months in the year; where- as the channel to the Chefapeak leads di- reftly into a warmer climate. The fouth- crn parts of it very rarely freeze at all.
and whenever the northren do, it is fo near the fources of the rivers, that the frequent iflioods to which they are there liable, break up the ice immediately, fo that veflels may pafs through the whole winter, fubjeft only to accidental and fhort delays.
Add to all this, that in cafe of a war with our neighbours, the Anglo-Americans or the Indians, the route to New-York becomes a frontier through almofl: its whole length, and all commerce through it ceafes from that moment.
But the channel to New- York is already known to pradiice; whereas the upper waters of the Ohio and the Patowmac, and the great falls of the latter, are yet to be cleared of their fixed obftruc- tions. (A.)
INTERROGACIÓN III. UN AVISO de los mejores puertos de mar del estado, y ¿cuán grandes son los buques que pueden recibir?