It has little or no river and coastwise traffic.

But the United States is a little world in itself; not so very small, and of late years growing greater.

Our wide extended coasts on Atlantic, Pacific, and the Mexican Gulf, are bordered by rich States crowded with a people who produce and consume more per capita than any other race.

From the oceans great navigable rivers, deep bays, and placid sounds, extend into the very heart of the country.

The Great Lakes are bordered by States more populous and cities more busy and enterprising than those, which in the proudest days of Rome, and Carthage and Venice skirted the Mediterranean and the Adriatic.