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wagons, and being marked with the owners* names, 

 are thrown into the river, where they continue till 

 the periodical rains commence at the end of May. 



THE MAHOGANY TREE. 



The rivers are soon swollen to a great height, and 

 the enormous logs begin to float. Their course is 

 followed by the band of workmen in flat-bottomed 

 canoes, and they have often to disengage them from 

 the branches of overhanging trees, until they are 

 stopped after a voyage of two or three hundred 

 miles by a boom placed near the mouth of the 



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