A weathered plank bearing a fern leans beside a green bottle amid shallow water and misty woodland.

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Thomas Jefferson

That Indian swamp in the wilderness.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The fragment describes an unnamed place as an Indian swamp in the wilderness. It preserves the speaker’s dismissive historical wording without treating the description as a verified account of a place or people.

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