For coastal settlers, the ocean provided convenient access to sources of supplies and markets for their products, but for those west of the mountains, wagon haulage over onerous tracts was their only means of connection o the Atlantic.
* the mountains : Appalachian Mount. *the ocean : Atlantic Ocean
Q1. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage?
(A) Dwellers near the seashore were favored with the Atlantic Ocean as compared with others in the west who needed the additional transportation to get to the seaside.
(B) People on the eastern seaboard used the sea to trade goods whereas the inhabitants in the west of the Appalachian Mountains relied on wagons to reach the Atlantic.
Besides, because the strip of land between Lake Erie and the Mohawk River rises up almost 600 feet, and canal technology of the time could only manage a change of up to 12 feet, safe passage would require the implementation of 84 separate canal locks, engineered contraptions that enable a boat to pass a section of the canal at one water level to another section at a different water level, butdo not allow water to flood from the higher elevation into the lower.
Q2. Same with the upside question.
(A) Due to the great difference in the height of the two bodies of water and the technological liminations to deal with it, numerous canal locks would be needed.
(B) The topographical conditions of the proposed canal location pushed the boundaries of existing canal technology and presented significant engineering challenges.
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