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rina between Arles and Fos, a haven on the Mediterranean. Lucius Verus undertook to unite the Saone and Moselle, and also to unite the Mediterranean and the German Ocean by means of the Rhone, Saone, Moselle, and Rhine. His death prevented the execution of the project. The great object of the Romans was to increase the facineering enterprises ceased, and the completed works fell into decay. Charlemagne revived the project of uniting the Rhine and the Danube, so as to connect the German Ocean and the Black Sea. The first canal in England was the Caerdike, cut by the Romans. Canals were constructed in China before the Christian era. No mentiond completed in 1810. The length is 32 1/2 miles. The canal of Orleans is 45 miles long, uniting the Loire and the Seine. The canal between the Baltic and North Seas at Kiel was opened 1785. That from the Cattegat to the Baltic, 1794-1800. The main line of the Ganges Canal, 525 miles long, for irrigating the country betwee