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12 continually run, and therefore is it called the Slougb of Diſpond: for ſtill as the ſinner is awakened about his loſt condition, there ariſeth in his foul many fears, and doubts, and diſcouraging apprehenſions, which all of them get together, and ſettle in this place: And this is the reaſon of the badneſs of this ground.

It is not the $h$ pleaſure of the King, that this place ſhould remain ſo bad; his Labourers alſo, have by the direction of His Majeſties Surveyors, been for above this ſixteen hundred years, imploy'd about this patch of ground, if perhaps it might have been mended: yea, and to my knowledge, faith he, Here hath been ſwallowed up, at leaſt Twenty thouſand Cart Loads; Yea Millions of wholeſom Inſtructions, that have at all ſeaſons been brought from all places of the Kings Dominions; (and they that can tell, ſay, they are the beſt Materials to make good ground of the place;) If ſo be it might have been mended, but it is the Slough of Diſpond ſtill; and ſo will be, when they have done what they can.

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