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It was "Invent a shovel and be a magistrate," even more than Andrew Marvell found it in the United Provinces. In fact, Raynal evidently thinks that nothing but Dutch experience in hydraulics could ever have cultivated Surinam. The two gun-boats which held one division of the expedition were merely old sugar-barges, roofed over with boards, and looking like coffins.
It was a case of "Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate," even more than Andrew Marvell found it in the United Provinces. In fact, Raynal evidently thinks that nothing but Dutch experience in hydraulics could ever have cultivated Surinam. The two gunboats which held one division of the expedition were merely old sugar-barges, roofed over with boards, and looking like coffins.
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