Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Great Lakes” in entry erie-canal-the of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:

...="ptext" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/strict"> The greatest work of internal improvement constructed in the United States previous to the Pacific Railway. It connects the waters of the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Hudson River. It was contemplated by General Schuyler and Elkanah Watson, but was first definitely proposed by Gouverneur Morris, at about the beginning of the...
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