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The Swedes on the Delaware, 1638-1664

Note 30 — Chapter VIII · The Colony Under Rising and Papegoja, 1653–1655.

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These batteries were built out of logs, protected by breast works and gabions. This battery which was nearest the fort (see the map in the author’s Swedish Settlements, II, 602–603) was called “Myggenborgh,” because there was “such a fearful amount of mosquitoes there.”

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