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Why did it take just six weeks for a keelboat to float down the Mississippi to New Orleans but four months to make the return trip?
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Why did it take just six weeks for a keelboat to float down the Mississippi to New Orleans but four months to make the return trip?

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The return trip was upstream, which was against the flow of the river.
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the return trip was upstream => against the flow of the river.

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