DELAWARE. A river of the Eastern United States, which rises on the western slopes of the Catskill 2lI1111ntains (9.v.) in fork Alai): New Jersey, P 11. It flows in a southwest course to 1)eposit, a distance of about 100 miles. 'Here it turns sharply to the south• and soon forms the boundary between Penn s\ 1 lania and New York. receiling at Ilancoel: tile waters of the eastern hrancli. which also rises in the Catskills. 't l'ort N. V., where it the boundary 11111(1'1'11 1• V.111111 11101 . it turns 111 1111 southwest a1111 !lbws in Ilial course to 1)elaware \Vater III,) 1. thence generally southward to Easton, Pa., thenee soothe:1st to a point just below Tren ton. thence southwest again past Philadelphia and ('pester. Pa.. where it begins III 111'011111'11 into 11 11 estuary, which gradually widens into Ma ware Itay. In it limer tonne it \ ow •Iersey from Delaware- Its is 1l0 miles and it drains an area of 12.012 square miles, of w.hich one-fou•th is in New York, 11v IA' one-half in Pennsylvania, and about one fifth 01 New' its Illea II dis al Lambertville has been estimated at 18,600 •nhie feet per second. It has a e(aNider
able fall and furnishes extensive power at Tren ton, where it erosses the hill Line (10 to 15 feet fall), at Lambertville (Welle-:, Falls. 14 feet), at Belvidere (Foul Lift, 23 feet). and at Port ,lervis (30 feet ) . Its chief tributaries are the Schuylkill (q.v.) and the Lehigh (q.v.), both front the west. It is navigable for large ships to Phil adelphia and for steamboats to the head of tide water at Trenton. It is seldom that navigation is closed by ice below Philadelphia. A canal parallels the left bank of the river from Easton, Pa., to Morrisville (opposite Trenton). and then cuts across a bend to Bristol. A canal also con nects Trenton with New Brunswick (on the Rari tan River), and another crosses New Jersey front near Phillipsburg to .1 ersey City on the Hud son River. A fourth canal parallels the Lehigh River and eonnects Mauch Chunk with Easton, while a fifth parallels the Lackawaxen River Honesdale, Pa., to Lackawaxen on the Delaware, and the Delaware to Port Jervis.