Pine Barrens lively banter

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While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans

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the world's largest rain forest

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Pine Barrens lively banterMost people think of New Jersey as a suburban industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens. The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which are too sandy and acid to be good for farming. On all