 | 1847 - 586 pagina’s
...firm by a covering of vegetables and their matted roots; yet, strange to say, instead of being lower than the level of the surrounding country, it is actually...encompasses it, and, to make the anomaly complete and in spite of the semi-fluid character, it is higher in the interior than towards its margin. " The... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pagina’s
...firm by a covering of vegetables and their matted roots ; yet, strange to say, instead of being lower than the level of the surrounding country, it is actually...nearly all the firm and dry land which encompasses it, end, to make the anomaly complete, in spite of its semi-fluid character, it is higher in the interior... | |
 | 1848 - 376 pagina’s
...firm by a covering of vegetables and their matted roots ; yet, strange to say, instead of being lower than the level of the surrounding country, it is actually...exceptions to both these statements is found on the eastern side, where, for the distance of about twelve or fifteen miles, the streams flow from slightly... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1848 - 478 pagina’s
...where the surface is rendered partially firm by a covering of vegetables and their matted roots ; and is actually higher than nearly all the firm and dry...complete, in spite of its semi-fluid character, it ia higher in the interior than towards the margin. The soil of the swamp is formed of vegetable matter,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 pagina’s
...firm by a covering of vegetables and their matted roots ; yet, strange to say, instead of being lower than the level of the surrounding country, it is actually...margin. The only exceptions to both these statements are found on the eastern side, where, for the distance of about twelve or fifteen miles, the streams... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 pagina’s
...firm by a covering of vegetables and their matted roots ; yet, strange to say, instead of being lower than the level of the surrounding country, it is actually...exceptions to both these statements is found on the eastern side, where, for the distance of about twelve or fifteen miles, the .streams flow from slightly... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pagina’s
...vegetables and their matted roots ; yet, strange to say, instead of being lower than the level of tlie surrounding country, it is actually higher than nearly...and, to make the anomaly complete, in spite of its semi-floid character, it is higher in the interior than towards its margin. The only exceptions to... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1866 - 578 pagina’s
...des Formations. 1845. § 8. . GREAT DISMAL SWAMP. covering of vegetables and their matted roots ; and is actually higher than nearly all the firm and dry...character, it is higher in the interior than towards the margin. The soil of the swamp is formed of vegetable matter, usually without any admixture of earthy... | |
 | David Page - 1864 - 374 pagina’s
...firm by a covering of vegetables and their matted roots ; yet, strange to say, instead of being lower than the level of the surrounding country, it is actually...semi-fluid character, it is higher in the interior (to the extent of ten or twelve feet) than towards the margin. . . . The soil of the Swamp is formed... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 pagina’s
...firm by a covering of vegetables and their matted roots ; yet, strange to say, instead of being lower than the level of the surrounding country, it .is...is higher in the interior than towards its margin. LYEI.L. give abundant evidence, by the rate of their descent, that the Great Dismal is higher than... | |
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I learnt of this singular morass. It is one enormous quagmire, soft and muddy, except where the surface is rendered partially firm by a covering of vegetables and their matted roots ; yet, strange to say, instead of being lower than the level of the surrounding... 
