"mountainload" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "mountain + load",
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          "ref": "1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 215:",
          "text": "It puts strange thoughts into one's head about the mountain-load of government under which people exist in Europe, and suggests the idea that we may be over-governed. Think of the hundred Acts of Parliament annually enacted to prevent us, the people of England, from cutting each other's throats, or from doing to our neighbour as we would not be done by.",
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        "An excessive amount."
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