23. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.

1. CANALS.

The following list, which was drawn up for the "Yeoman's Gazette," gives a summary view of the principal canals, now finished, in progress, or in immediate contemplation in the United States.

1. Middlesex Canal. This has been finished and in operation for several years; its length is 29 miles; it has 136 feet lockage. It runs from Boston harbour to Chelmsford, in Massachusetts.

2. Blackstone Canal. This has been in operation between one and two years. Its length is 45 miles, from Worcester, Massachusetts, to Providence, Rhode Island.

3. Farmington Canal. This is unfinished. Length 37 miles, from Northampton, Mass., to New Haven, Connecticut.

4. Hudson and Erie Canal. - This is in operation. Length 360 miles, from Albany to Buffalo, N. York.

5. Champlain Canal. — Completed; length 63 miles, from Albany to White Hall.

6. Oswego Canal.. - Completed; length 38 miles, from Salina to Oswego, connecting the Hudson and Erie canal with Lake Ontario.

7. Seneca Canal.

Completed; its length 20 miles, connecting the

Seneca and Cayuga lakes with Hudson and Erie canal.

8. Delaware and Hudson Canal. — Length 65 miles, from Delaware, in Orange county, to the Hudson, near Kingston.

9. Morris Canal. This is in progress; its length 86 miles, from Easton to Newark, N. Jersey.

10. Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. from Delaware river to Chesapeake bay.

Completed; length 14 miles,

11. Port Deposite Canal. - Completed; length 10 miles, from Port Deposite, on the Susquehannah, to the Maryland line.

12 Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. — This was begun on the 4th of July, 1828, when ground was broken by the President of the United States. Length 360 miles, from Georgetown, District of Columbia, to near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

13. Ohio State Canal. - Unfinished; length 306 miles, from Cleveland, on Lake Erie, to the Ohio, at the mouth of the Sciota.

14. Miami Canal. Unfinished; length 265 miles, from Cincinnati to the Maumee, near the head of Lake Erie.

15. Lehigh Canal. — Unfinished; length 46 miles, from Stoddartsville, on the Lehigh, to Easton, on the Delaware.

16. Little Schuylkill Canal. Its length 25 miles from the mouth of Little Schuylkill river to the coal mines.

17. Conestogo Canal. Length 18 miles, from Lancaster to the mouth of Conestogo creek.

18. Schuylkill Canal.— Finished; length 108 miles, from Philadelphia to Mount Carbon.

19. Union Canal. — Finished; length 79 miles, from Reading to Middletown.

20. Pennsylvania Canal. In progress, it having been commenced at both extremities; length 296 miles, from Middletown to Pittsburg.

The three last mentioned canals for a line from Philadelphia to the Ohio, at Pittsburg, and may be considered parts of the same great enterprise.

21. Ohio and Erie Canal. Erie, on Lake Erie.

22. Delaware Canal.

This will run from Philadelphia to meet the

Delaware and Hudson Canal. It has already been begun.

2. AMOUNT of MONEY expended in each STATE and TERRITORY, by the UNITED STATES, upon WORKS of INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT from the ADOPTION of the FEDERAL CONSTITUTION to the 1st day of October,

Surveys of Maps and Charts of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers

Improving the Navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers

Military Roads

Surveys of the water courses of the Mississippi river

Road through the Creek Nation

Opening the old Natchez road

Breakwater at the mouth of Delaware Bay

24. POPULATION.

1. Table showing the amount of Population in the different States and Territories, according to four enumerations, and the Number of Square Miles in each.

2. Relative Increase of the White and Colored Classes.

25. COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES.

[This table and the following are taken from the Journal of the American Education Society.]