Dismal Swamp. measuring 30 miles from north to south by 10 in breadth, lies chiefly in Virginia, but partly in North Carolina. In the centre is Lake Drummond, about 6 miles broad; elsewhere its dense growth of cypress and cedar has been greatly thinned, and part of the region has been reclaimed. The tract is intersccted by a canal connecting Chesapeake Bay and Albemarle Sound.
Dismal Swamp.
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 13
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