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“...[inland of about ten miles, and the banks of the rivers
for some distance from the mouths. The front lands,
or lands on the sea-board, are flat and low, and the sea
I is kept out at high tide and the land drained by an
[elaborate system of sea defences and canals established
} by the former Dutch owners. The soil, being alluvial,
I is naturally rich and fertile. The interior of the colony
■consists of swampy grass plains called savannahs, dense
j forests and bush, and ranges of mountains. The primi-
I tive forests are only occupied by a few Indians, with
There and there a wood-cutter’s, a gold-digger’s, or a
Idiamond-washer’s Camp. A series of sand-hills, now...”
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