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[Author note written across text]
Salt Water River
plains of good Land and then
came into a forest thinly
timbered with Gum, Wattle,
She Oak, the Land, for the
first time was rather
sandy with a little Gravel,
but the Grass about 10
Inche high and like a field
of Wheat - so very good
and green - I have not
felt the slightest frost
or any thing like it - we
then made the River, I had
gone up a few days before
intending to come on the
opposite side of the River
and hail the Vessel - I
crossed on the Banks of the
River a large marsh about
1 ½ mile by 3 or 4 Long of
the Richest discription of
soil not a tree, when
we got on the marsh, the
Quails began to fly and
