in
each pot. Place them in a northern aspect, to recover the effect of
their removal from the seed-bed, and in a month they are fit for
forcing.

_American Canals._

The canals are the most striking internal improvements in the United
States. The Great Erie canal is 360 miles in length, with an average
breadth of 40 feet. It connects the great line of lakes with the ocean
by the Hudson. Another to connect the Hudson with Lake Champlain is also
complete. Above 2,000,000_l._ have been expended on them; and the
annual returns from the tolls alone have already amounted to
120,000_l._ In the state of Ohio, another canal is in progress,
almost equal in magnitude to the Erie canal. On the rivers which it
connects with the lakes, there is a steam-boat navigation of 5,000
miles. In Pennsylvania, the Schuylkill navigation works comprise an
extent of 108 miles, of which 62 are canal, and 46 the river made
navigable. These works are complete. The Union canal, a line of 74
miles, to connect the Schuylkill with the Susqueannah, is in progress,
and will be completed within the present year. These, however, are but a
few of the gigantic strides which America is making in the march of
nations.

_Caledonian Canal._

Between August 1, 1826, and August 1, 1827, 212 vessels have passed
through the Caledonian canal from sea to sea. 295 vessels have made
partial passages through one end of the canal, to and from various
ports; 74 boats, not above 15 tons burden each, have been employed in
the carriage of articles to the fishery stations; and 91 steam-boats
have passed through the canal, all within the period abovementioned.

_Medicine._

A respectable contemporary journal gives the following calculations on
the relative state of the medical profession in London and Paris. The
French have long objected to the multitude of our professors, and the
drugs they employ; and it would seem by this comparative statement that
their objection is not ill-founded:--

In _London_ there are 174 physicians, or 1 physician to 700
inhabitants; 1,000 surgeons, or 1 surgeon to 1,200 inhabitants; 2,000
apothecaries, or 1 apothecary to 600 inhabitants.

In _Paris_ there is 1 physician to 1,300 inhabitants; 1 surgeon to
6,000 inhabitants; 1 apothecary to 4,450 inhabitants.

Being in the proportion of 1 physician in Paris to 5 in London; 5
surgeons in London to 1 in Paris; 7 apothecaries in London to 1 in
Paris.

Supposing, on an average, each of