OKEFENOKEE, THE MAGICAL SWAMP

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The document is a travel article about the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia and Florida. The author describes the swamp as a primitive and vibrant ecosystem that is teeming with life. They mention that the swamp is known for being the place where life first emerged from the sea to colonize the land. The author also mentions a guide named Clay Purvis who has extensively explored the swamp. They describe the swamp as a large area of dark water, cypress trees, marshes, and islands that provide refuge for wildlife and tranquility for humans. There is no mention of the CIA's Stargate program in this document.

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 THERE IS SOMETHING wonderfully
 elemental, marvelously primeval about
 bog, marsh, or swamp. The waters, the
 muck, the rushes and cattails fairly
 teem with life from the lowest forms on up
 the scale of evolution. Indeed it  wits  in
 swamps, was it not, that life first emerged
 from the sea to colonize the land? And thus
 it was with an atavistic feeling of coming
 home that I stepped into Clay Purvis's ca-
 noe at the northern entrance to Okefenokee
 Swamp on a cold, clear December morning.
 Clay, a quick-moving, slightly built nat-
 uralist-guide for Okefenokee Swamp Park,
 has spent a good part of his 22 years ex-
 ploring the inner recesses of Okefenokee.
 Like a vast saucer of tea, Okefenokee spills
 its dark waters across 680 square miles
 of southeast Georgia and northern Florida.
 Here Spanish moss-draped cypress,
 open-marsh "prairies," and piny islands
 offer refu e to wildlife and serenity to man.
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