 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pagina’s
...North Carolina; I observed that the water was obviously in motion in several places, and the morass had somewhat the appearance of a broad inundated river-plain,...shall relate what I learnt of this singular morass. It is one enormous quagmire, soft and muddy, except where the surface u rendered partially firm by... | |
 | 1848 - 376 pagina’s
...North Carolina. I observed that the water was obviously in motion in several places, and the morass had somewhat the appearance of a broad inundated river-plain,...aquatic trees and shrubs, the soil being as black as a peat-bog. The accumulation of vegetable matter going on here in a hot climate, over so vast an area,... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1848 - 478 pagina’s
...and twenty-five miles in its greatest width, and has the appearance of a broad inundated river plain, covered with all kinds of aquatic trees and shrubs, the soil being as black as in a peat-bog. It is one enormous quagmire, soft and muddy, except where the surface is rendered partially firm by... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 pagina’s
...North Carolina. I observed that the water was obviously in motion in several places, and the morass had somewhat the appearance of a broad, inundated river-plain,...trees and shrubs, the soil being as black as in a peat bog. The accumulation of vegetable matter going on here in a hot climate, over so vast an area,... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pagina’s
...North Carolina. I observed that the water was obviously in motion in several places, and the morass had somewhat the appearance of a broad inundated river-plain,...The accumulation of vegetable matter going on here iu a. hot climate, over so vast an area, is a subject of such high geological interest, that I shall... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1866 - 578 pagina’s
..." Great Dismal," is a morass forty miles long, and twenty-five miles in its greatest width, and has the appearance of a broad inundated river-plain, covered...shrubs, the soil being as black as in a peat-bog. It is one enormous quagmire, soft and muddy, except where the surface is rendered partially firm by... | |
 | David Page - 1864 - 374 pagina’s
...vegetable productions), is thus alluded to by Sir Charles Lyel! in his ' Travels in North America : ' " It bears the appropriate and very expressive name...aquatic trees and shrubs— the soil being as black as a peat-bog. . . . It is one enormous quagmire, soft and muddy, except where the surface is rendered... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 pagina’s
...North Carolina. I observed that the water was obviously in motion in several places, and the morass had somewhat the appearance of a broad inundated river-plain,...climate, over so vast an area, is a subject of such high geolrgical interest, that I shall relate what I learnt of this singular morass. It is one enormous... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1876 - 452 pagina’s
...North Carolina. I observed that the water was obviously in motion in several places, and the morass had somewhat the appearance of a broad inundated river-plain,...accumulation of vegetable matter going on here in allot climate, over so vast an area, is a subject of such high geological interest, that I shall relate... | |
 | Robert Lomas - 1876 - 122 pagina’s
...North Carolina. I observed that the water was obviously in motion in several places, and the morass had somewhat the appearance of a broad inundated riverplain,...shrubs, the soil being as black as in a peat-bog. II. The accumulation of vegetable matter going on here in a hot climate, over so vast an area, is a... | |
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... Dismal," and is no less than forty miles in length from north to south, and twenty-five miles in its greatest width from east to west, the northern half being situated in Virginia, the southern in North Carolina. I observed that the water was obviously... 
