>NB>We're not saying that pre-canal there was just a bigger swamp; more that
> >there was a great undiluted lump of pure malevolent EVIL festering on
> >the Plaines.
>Sorry to sound petulant but I've never had any doubts about that. The
>present debate arose because I felt that Waha did a lousy job of cleansing
>his Mother in diverting the river to clean the Devil away.
And my point was that compared to what was _before_ the swamp, things were much much worse. Hence the swamp is not evidence of Waha botching the job anymore than a root canal is evidence of a dentist botching the job.
--Peter Metcalfe
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