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Some account of Batavia

this, that when they clean them which is pretty often, as some are not more than 3 or 4 feet deep, the black mud taken out is sufferd to lie upon their banks, that is in the middle of the street, till it has acquird a sufficient hardness to be conveniently laden into boats, this mud stinks most intolerably, as indeed it must, being cheifly formd from human ordure, of which (as there is not a necessary house in the whole town) the Canals every morning receive their regular quota, & the more filthy recrements of housekeeping, which the uncommon police of the countrey suffers every body to throw into them, add to this, that the running ones, which are in some measure free from the former inconveniences, have every now & then a dead horse, or hog, stranded in the shallow parts of them, a nuisance which

 

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