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Some account of Batavia

& the Banks of the canals in general planted with rows of trees, a stranger on his first arrival is very much struck with these, & often led to observe how much the heat of the climate must be temperd by the shade of the trees, & coolness of the water, indeed as to the first, it must be convenient to those who walk on foot, but a very short residence will shew him, that their inconveniencies far overbalance any convenience he can derive from them, in any but a mercantile light, instead of cooling the air, they contribute not a little to heat it, especialy the stagnating ones, of which sort are by far the greatest number, by reflecting back the fierce rays of the sun, in the dry season these stink most intolerably, & in the wet many of them overflow their banks, filling the lower stories of the houses near them with water, add to

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