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To: Paladin2

“They’d be better off to build a canal.”

Wouldn’t it be pretty hard to elevate all that water?


11 posted on 06/06/2012 2:53:33 PM PDT by ngat
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To: ngat

If they had enough traffic, it wouldn’t take much water.


13 posted on 06/06/2012 2:55:03 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ngat
Wouldn’t it be pretty hard to elevate all that water?

Not hard in a technical sense, just expensive to build and time-consuming to use. Canal locks don't exactly make for speedy transport.

17 posted on 06/06/2012 3:02:47 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: ngat
"Pontcysyllte Aquaduct"


18 posted on 06/06/2012 3:02:52 PM PDT by BwanaNdege (Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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