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Dismal Swamp
noun
- a swamp in SE Virginia and NE North Carolina. About 30 miles (48 km) long; about 600 sq. mi. (1,500 sq. km).
Dismal Swamp
noun
- a coastal marshland in SE Virginia and NE North Carolina: partly reclaimed. Area: about 1940 sq km (750 sq miles). Area before reclamation: 5200 sq km (2000 sq miles)
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When winter set in with its long dark nights no ray of light illuminated this dismal swamp.
Yet it kept off some of the chill night air, and the miasmatic breath of that “dismal swamp.”
If History, driven upon Dismal Swamp with its horrors and perils, can get across unsunk, she will be lucky!
Once he conceived the idea of reclaiming the Great Dismal Swamp, and actually explored it with reference to that ultimate purpose.
Through his agency, the incorporated company known as the Dismal Swamp Company was organized.
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