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"The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand."
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"When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system."
"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."
"I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none."
"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."
"I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult."
"Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions."
"Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent."
"If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?"
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"The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name."
"In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another."
"Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them."
"I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season."
"The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil."
"The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand."
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