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OF MACHINERY.

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IN FRANCE.
	Miles in Length.
Navigable Rivers	4668
Navigable Canals	915·5
Navigable Canals in progress of execution (1824)	1388
	6971·5^[1]

But, if we reduce these numbers in the proportion of 3.7 to 1, which is the relative area of France as compared with England and Wales, then we shall have the following comparison:

		ENGLAND.^[2]	Portion of France equal in size to England and Wales.

		Miles.	Miles.
Navigable Rivers		1275.5	1261.6
Tidal Navigation ^[3]		545.9
Canals, direct	2023.5
Canals~~— — —~~, branch	150.6
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	2174.1	2174.1	247.4
Canals commenced		—	375.1
Total		3995.5	1884.1
Population in 1831		13,894,500	8,608,500

↑ This table is extracted and reduced from one of Ravinet, Dictionnaire Hydrographique, 2 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1824.
↑ I am indebted to F. Page, Esq. of Speen, for that portion of this table which relates to the internal navigation of England. Those only who have themselves collected statistical details can be aware of the expense of time and labour, of which the few lines it contains are the result.
↑ The tidal navigation includes—the Thames, from the mouth of the Medway,—the Severn, from the Holmes,—the Trent, from Trent-falls in the Humber,—the Mersey, from Runcorn Gap.

[1] This table is extracted and reduced from one of Ravinet, Dictionnaire Hydrographique, 2 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1824.

[2] I am indebted to F. Page, Esq. of Speen, for that portion of this table which relates to the internal navigation of England. Those only who have themselves collected statistical details can be aware of the expense of time and labour, of which the few lines it contains are the result.

[3] The tidal navigation includes—the Thames, from the mouth of the Medway,—the Severn, from the Holmes,—the Trent, from Trent-falls in the Humber,—the Mersey, from Runcorn Gap.

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