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National Geographic : 1981 Nov
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BOB KRIST local businessmen had an audacious plan: the Morris Canal. Digging started in 1825, and within six years it was opened, running from Phillipsburg on the Pennsylvania bor der through Morris County to Newark. By 1836 it reached the Hudson River at Jersey City, a distance of 102 miles. Surmounting the heights along the route was a stupendous engineering achievement. Boats entered the canal from the Delaware New Jersey: A State of Surprise River at Phillipsburg and, through a series of locks and ingenious inclined planes, were hauled up 760 feet to the topmost point near Lake Hopatcong, and then lowered 914 feet on the way to the Hudson. "A one-way trip generally took about five days," said Jim Lee of Phillipsburg, a man who has made a lifelong study of the canal. When he was discharged at the end of World War II, Jim bought a portion of the old, then 585
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