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SECTION XXVIII. 



Particular Explanations on the Subject of the 

 Author's Opinion respecting Salt Marshes, 



ALTHOUGH I did not travel into the 

 back lands, I can with safety say, that I have 

 travelled sufficiently in the inhabited parts 

 of America, to take a fair view of as much 

 land as the half of England contains ; after 

 which, I hope the reader will allow me to 

 have seen enough to judge of the country. 

 And it was not by riding along the high- 

 ways, as some travellers and authors do : 

 nay, I believe, some have written from hear- 

 say. A man, although a good judge of 

 land, may be very much deceived by jour- 

 neying along the beaten roads ; even in crops 

 when growing, unless he goes into them; and 

 much more so in travelling through woods. 

 But the remarks which I have given in this 



