Susquehanna

Susquehanna, an American river, the North Branch (350 miles) of which has its origin in Schuyler Lake, in central New York, and the West Branch (250 miles) in the Alleghany Mountains. These two unite at Northumberland, Pennsylvania, and the river thence flows south to Harrisburg, and then south-eastward into Maryland, and so to the north end of Chesapeake Bay. Length, 150 miles; chief tributary, the Juniata. It is a shallow, rapid, mountain river, with varied and romantic scenery, and is of use mainly for floating timber. On its banks Coleridge and Southey proposed to found their 'pantisocracy.'