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and flat and uninteresting. and mnow our way to [[underlined]] Georgetown [[/underlined]] which will take at least 2 hours more. Both shores seem uninhabited land, in some parts covered with wild woods. I notice some [[underlined]] palmettos. [[/underlined]] The first palmetoes I saw were near Bear Inlet. They were shrub growth. The one I see here are [[underlined]] tree like [[/underlined]] and give an [[underlined]] a tropical air [[/underlined]] to the landscape. Johnson tells me [[strikethrough]] temp [[/strikethrough]] climate here is warmer than in Georgia. At dark we arrived at [[underlined]] Georgetown, [[/underlined]] tied up at a wharf behind a well kept grocery store. Mr. Ford the proprietor came to welcome me with the same quiet ^ [[insert]] [[?]] [[/insert]] kindness which I observed everywhere here in the South. There is some kind of a fair and tent show
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in town. and seems like a holiday Johnson went out to find a meal in a restaurant [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] while I [[strikethrough]] stayed aboard [[/strikethrough]] took my light supper aboard.
Shortly afterward arrived an auxiliary sail yacht. a [[underlined]] "Bug-eye" [[/underlined]] as they call them on Chesapeake Bay and which belongs to a [[underlined]] certain Mr. Carnegie, [[/underlined]] probably a cousin to Andrew Carnegie. It is an old boat 40 years old, a converted merchant boat.
Oct. 28. Beautiful weather. Up early. A stroll thru the little town to buy some supplies. Quiet easy going little place not without a certain charm. [[underlined]] Johnson [[/underlined]] tells me that altho' [[underlined]] prohibition is [[/underlined]] law [[underlined]] liquor can be obtained almost [[/underlined]] everywhere. [[underlined]] Particularly in the drugstores. [[/underlined]] People are undoubdetly more civil and more polite than in the East. Mapped out our course for inland route to [[underlined]] Charleston

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Instructions say to use the word 'underlined' in brackets when words are underlined in text. Seems appropriate because indicates past tense.