I might have tried the swamp also. After founding, set a settler to irrigate the center to grassland. A second settler will make it go faster, but it really does not take all that much time. The power of a science city is greatest when it is big enough to have many scientists, and that is possible only with large food production that comes from grasslands. I like cities with lots of rivered grasslands. The river helps with defense early, but bridge building seems to take a while to discover, so it's science value is deferred.
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