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Some account of Batavia

[Margin note]  Country
round the town one universal flat, as I know few exceptions to it, this flat is intersected in many directions by rivers, in still more by Canals navigable for small vessels,
[Margin note]  Ditches universal Fence
but worst of all is the Ditches, which as in the marshes of Lincolnshire, are the universal fences of feilds & gardens, hedges being almost totaly unusd here, nor are filthy fenny bogs & morasses, as well fresh & salt wanting, even in the near neighbourhood of the town, to add their banefull influence to the rest, & compleat the unhealthyness of the countrey, which much as I have said of it, I beleive, I have not exagerated,
[Margin note]  pale & Disseas'd
the people themselves speak of it in as strong terms as I do, while their pale faces & diseasd bodies, of those who are said to be inurd to it, as well as the preventive medicines &c &c., & the frequent attacks of disease they are subject to, abundantly testifie to the truth of what they assert, the very church yards shew it by the number of graves constantly open in them, far disproportionate to the number of

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