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Show vn ( Ill III ) ANCIENT ( AND AWD ) ( EAULY EARLY ) ( NAVIGATION ITAVIGATION ) ( 'The The ) Colorado River above Lees Ferry , Arizona , the Green River , and the San Juan River ( have llave ) no history of early navigation In determining the question of the navigability of a river , ancient and early navigation is entitled to great weight . This is necessarily so , because , in the early history of this country there were few ( overland overlaiid ) routes . Explorers , fur traders , ( mer mer- mer ) chants , and immigrants were forced whenever ( pos pos- pos ) sible to use rivers as highways for trade and travel . Early navigation was given serious consideration in the case of ( "Tie Tie "T7te T7te ) ( Montello" Montello Monte7lo" Monte7lo ) ( 20 , Wall . 430 ) wherein it is said at page 440 : It is true , without the ( improvements impTovements ) by locks , canals , and dams , Fox River , through its entire length , could not be navigated by steamboats ( or oT ) sail vessels , but it is equally true that it formed , in connection with the Wisconsin ( one oiie ) of the earliest and most ( im- im ) , portant channels of communication between the Upper Mississippi and the lakes . It was this route ( which wbich ) ( Marquette Alarquette ) and Joliet took in 1673 on their voyage to discover the ( Mis Mis- Mis ) sissippi ; and the immense fur trade of the ( Northwest Yorthwest ) was carried over it for more than a century . The court also quotes at page 440 , from Smith in his History of Wisconsin ( Vol . 1 , page 81 ) as follows : |