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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: St LawrenceWww@QuestionHome@Com the Delaware River Commerce was once important on the upper river, primarily prior to railway competition (1857)!. The Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal, running parallel with the river from Easton to Bristol, opened in 1830!. The Delaware and Raritan Canal, which runs along the New Jersey side of the Delaware River from Milford to Trenton, unites the waters of the Delaware and Raritan rivers as it empties the waters of the Delaware River via the canal outlet in New Brunswick!. This canal water conduit is still used as a water supply source by the State of New Jersey!. The Morris Canal (now abandoned and almost completely filled in) and the Delaware and Hudson Canal connected the Delaware and Hudson rivers!. The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal joins the waters of the Delaware with those of the Chesapeake Bay!. The mean tides below Philadelphia are about 6 feet (2 m)!. The magnitude of the commerce of Philadelphia has made the improvements of the river below that port of great importance!. Small improvements were attempted by Pennsylvania as early as 1771!. Www@QuestionHome@Com The James River EDIT: Louis, what on earth are you talking about!? The James River was the river that opened up Virginia to settlement, from the first colony in Jamestown, all the way up to the fall line in Richmond!. It was used by the farmers in the plantations all along the Tidewater, to send tobacco and goods back to England!. The St!. Lawrence, etc!. was used later, after settlement!. I guess the same could be said about almost any other river on the Eastern seaboard that dumps to the Atlantic, but I was using the clues "settlement" and "colonies" !. It may not be the answer the kid's teacher was looking for, but it was a reasonable answer!. What does the PSP have to do with it!?Www@QuestionHome@Com MamaBear, I'm older than that and I bought the PSP myself!. Please revise your answer!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |