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Show The lllg Caaala C tha UorlJ. The lougcat canal In the worl 1 U the Ira erlAl canal of China, wldcli eiartafrom Vkln. connect a the Iftiang Uo. Vang ta- Klaug and a number of other rltera, haae byth gate of forty-one clllee, atfl wltb lu bra ochre altonN nearly 3.UU0 tnltc ot I water commuulcallon lu the heart of the empire. The lien lolcngthltlhedaiigea , raoal, conatructeilfor ihejHirpoMi of lrrl- gating tbe pllnaMwin tbe tlatigee and' the Jumna. The main line la SD uillri Inj length, and it brauchoa prultably iloublt I Ihladlataoce.TbeLrieranalUthelhlrd.'tS inllra In leugtb, begun In It IT and flnlahrd right yrara later 1 hrre are aeveral canal In Kurope wboaeltngthexoeeaUa hundred inltew, the I,angiieloc canal, connecting the Atlantic with the Mrtllteranean, It . HHniUaalong.uMbyrneauaof almiwlred or mora lorke rucende to a point Oft) feel abovatlioaft. The largest ablp canal In Kuropo lathi North Holland canal, from Amaterdam to tbo Haider, a dlatauc of fifty-one milt, the Kurt hand Clyde canal lu Hcolbind it thirty fire mile, aud tbe Caledonian eoin what longer Imo barge cauala In I'n-gland I'n-gland enroul one hundred mllea-th tlrandJuuctlonandtbfl tertltand IJtrr pool HUetJinate-l that tbe ranal liatr KillundUtaurtof HreatHrilAln at Ibetlmt when canal were moat Uw-d covered t?U iutltw,aad tlut of the United hutea up ward of tftu-HU Iiul (ItohlVmoirat. |