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NCM.764.004
10 Aug 1764:802 (1/10)
. . . [Report on expected arrival of new Governor Tryon and
competition between Wilmington and New Bern for location of
the Governor's residence; in referring to Wilmington, it is
described as] gloomy and dismal, through hot parching sands,
enliven'd now and then with a few wire-grass ridges, and
ponds of stagnant water: And where, on your arrival, not as
Dr. Watts says,
Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood,
Stand drest in living green;
Go to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan roll'd between;
But as the passage, so the entrance, dismal; . . .
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