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AT day break we got up, and rowed 

 a good while before we got to the 

 place where we left the true roadi 

 The country which we paffed was the 

 pooreft and moft difagreeable imaginable. 

 We faw nothing but a row of amazing 

 high mountains covered with woods, fteep 

 and dirty on their fides; fo that we found it 

 difficult to get to a dry place, in order to 

 land and boil our dinner. In many places the 

 ground, which was very fmooth, was under 

 water, and looked like the fides of our Swedifh 

 morafles which are intended to be drained ; 

 for this reafon the Dutch in Albany call 

 thefe parts the Drowned Lands .* Some of 



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