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We soon entered it and found it covered with a low shrubbery of cedar and hackmetack, the roots of which were so excessively slippery, that we could hardly keep upon our feet.
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The course through these ponds, I should judge was nearly N.W. The land apparently very barren -- the timber consisting chiefly of fir, spruce, hackmetack and hemlock.
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And I ain't holden to run up and git blowed to everlastin 'hackmetack with a bag of dynamite. "
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900
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