From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   On 2014-07-10 14:43:21 +0000, William Vetter said:   
   > You cannot "sail" very much up the rivers, without steam power.  You   
   > can tack very slowly with a sailship up the mouths of some of the   
   > larger, quieter US rivers.  When we talk of river travel to "the   
   > interior" of the US, we mean up or along the St. Lawrence or Hudson   
   > Rivers toward the Great Lakes, or up the Mississippi River, and then up   
   > the Ohio River.   
      
   The St. Lawrence wasn't much use until 1959, in fact.   
      
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   John W Kennedy   
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   Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."   
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