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Rivulets that run from the hills into the
sea but there are very few or no morasses or
marshes or any lakes pools or collections of
standing water which of course must tender it
the more healthy It is covered with all that
vast variety of timber that is to be found in
most countries in the West Indies and many of
these as extraordinary in their size as
exellent in their nature The same may be
said with respect to fruit trees and among
these there are some that are peculiar to
Tobago such for instance as the true nutmeg
tree which the Dutch who of all nations
could not be decieved in that respect affirm
to have found here It is true they say
it is a wild nutmeg that the mace less

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