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Dismal Swamp

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Dismal Swamp

Large marsh situated in southeast Virginia and northeast North Carolina; area about 2,000 sq km/750 sq mi. Many trees grow in the marsh, mostly cypress, black gum, pine, and cedar. The area is gradually being reclaimed and canals have been cut through it, the longest of which is the Dismal Swamp Canal (length 35 km/22 mi), which connects Chesapeake Bay and Albermarle Sound. Lake Drummond is in the centre of the marsh area.

The swamp was long a refuge for runaway slaves and other fugitives, who established stable communities within it.
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Nevertheless the sun hides not Virginia's Dismal Swamp, nor Rome's accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor all the millions of miles of deserts and of griefs beneath the moon.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
These are chiefly landscapes of an imaginative cast-such as the fairy grottoes of Stanfield, or the lake of the Dismal Swamp of Chapman.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
Yes, though you may think me perverse, if it were proposed to me to dwell in the neighborhood of the most beautiful garden that ever human art contrived, or else of a Dismal Swamp, I should certainly decide for the swamp.
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