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At first there had been only the old towns along the River and the old towns along the hills,
from each of which the planters with their gangs of slaves and then of hired laborers had wrested from the impenetrable jungle of water-standing cane and cypress, gum and holly and oak and ash,
cotton patches which as the years passed became fields and then plantations.
The paths made by deer and bear became roads and then highways,
with towns in turn springing up along them and along the rivers Tallahatchie and Sunflower which joined and became the Yazoo,
the River of the Dead of the Choctawsthe thick, slow, black, unsunned streams almost without current,
which once each year ceased to flow at all and then reversed, spreading, drowning the rich land and subsiding again, leaving it still richer.
William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses
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