Its principal seaport is Portland, but it also has other improved harbors, among which are Bar Harbor, Stockton, Camden, Rockport, Rock!old, Matinicus, South Bristol, Boothbay, Sasanoa and others.
Portland has a developed waterfront of four miles in extent. It has 47 wharves, 12 of •ttich are used for transportation terminals. hs tonnage in 1917 was 2.905,428 tons.
12.7Z3 The tons. tonnage of Bar Harbor in 1917 was Saco River, 105 miles long has a channel seven feet deep and from 100 to 200 feet in •idth for six miles up-stream. In 1917 its ton nage was 53,216 tons.
Nun Hampshire and Massachusetts.—New Hampshire has Portsmouth as its principal for lied harbor. Its rivers are few. Cochero and Fainter rivers are navigable a few miles for Light draft vessels and the channel of the Mer rimac has been improved to Haverhill, 1654 mks, to a depth of seven feet. Fourteen .haves extend along the Merrimac. Its ton nage in 1917 was 18,031 tons. Portsmouth and other harbors have been improved.
PeppereUs Cove is a part of Portsmouth Harbor and has been improved for anchorage the controlling depth being 11 feet. :age in 1917 was 109,781 tons.
The inland lakes of New Hampshire are meitable by small pleasure boats. The same is true of the rivers of Massachusetts. It has, however. Boston Harbor, Massachusetts Bay, Cape Cod Bay, which is connected with Buz ord's Bay bar a canal across Cape Cod, Nan tucket Sound Vineyard Scond, Buzzard's Bay sad several other small bays, all in communica tes with the ocean. Boston has a land-locked harbor of 47 e miles in area. It has sev eral improved channels from 23 to 40 feet deep and from 10O to 1,200 feet wide. Its inflowing tributaries, Chelsea Creek, Fort Point Channel, Chides River and Mystic River have all been ma de navigable. In 1917 the tonnage on Chel sea Creek was 532,200 tons; on Fort Point Olamel 1,116,204 tons; on Mystic River 5,082, 250 tons. It has four or more milts of fully developed waterfront with wharves of various to ocean commerce. Gloucester, . Salem and Lynn harbors have all been Omiveed. In 1917 the tonnage of Gloucester Harbor was 239,272 tons; of Beverly Harbor, 444.695 tons; of Salem, 58,158 tons and of Lynn Harbor, 338.783 tons.
Taunton River is navigable to Taunton, 15 ages from its outlet, which empties into Mount Hope Bay. The Malden, Weymouth Fore and Weymouth Back rivers are navigable • their mouths only. Salem, as a commercial pert, has a reputation far more enviable than that for witchcraft.
Vermont — Vermont has part of Lake Mem- which is navigable by lake steam- of Lake Champlain, 120 miles long and 15 miles wide in its extreme width, which has hem Mice its discovery on 4 July 1609, a Beltway of commerce for the aborigines, for the colonists and for Americans generally. It is navigated by large lake steamers, by scores of other steamers and by many yachts and sail ing vessels. It is one of the most picturesque lakes in America and forms an important por tion of the 467 miles of waterway between the Saint Lawrence on the north and New York Bay on the south. It contains several beautiful islands, such as Isle La Motte, North Hero and South Hero. Lake Champlain is connected with the waters of the Hudson River at Fort Ed ward by the Champlain Barge Canal, having a depth of 12 feet of water, so that vessels draw ing 11 feet may pass from Lake Champlain through into the Hudson River.
Whitehall, Port Henry, Burlington, Platts burgh and Rouses Point are the principal im proved ports of Lake Champlain. Itsncipal tributaries are the historic Otter where Commodore Macdonough built his fleet m 1814, the Missisquoi River and the Champlain or Big Chary River. Its outlet is the Richelieu River, a tributary of the Saint Lawrence.
Rhode Island.— Rhode Island has Narra gansett Bay, Mount Hope Bay, Providence and Seekonk rivers. These are navigable by large passenger and other vessels. Narragansett Bay, about 20 miles long and 12 miles wide, has channels through it to Providence and Fall River. Along its eastern margin is Sakonnet River with Portsmouth Harbor at the head of it. The Pawtucket River. 50 miles long, is im proved in its lower section for a distance of five and two-tenths miles. Its tonnage in 1917 was 490,594 tons. Providence River and Har bor has been dredged to a depth of 30 feet over an area one and six-tenths miles in length and one tarter mile in width. Its tonnage in 1917 was3,406,244 tons. Fall River Harbor, at the mouth of Taunton River, has a channel 300 feet wide and 25 feet deep, extending out to Bay. The steamers of the Fall River Line enter that harbor. In 1917 its ton nage was 1,469,750 tons. Newport Harbor, R I, is an improved waterway with a channel 750 feet wide and 18 feet deep at low water. Its tonnage in 1917 was 204,701 tons.