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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby
It wouldn't be any stranger having a paddle wheeler cruising the Carribean than it is having a sailing ship of the high seas plying the Mississippi.
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Actually, the Columbia River (a River of America, don'cha know) is named for the ship which traveled up it!
From Wikipedia:
"On May 11, 1792, Captain Robert Gray became the first European to sail into the Columbia River. Gray traveled to the Pacific Northwest to trade for fur in a privately-owned vessel named Columbia; he named the river after the ship."