Parley's Magazine, Volume 2C.S. Francis & Company, 1834 - Children's periodicals |
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Page 86
... DISMAL SWAMP CANAL . THIS canal is twenty - two miles long , in Norfolk County in Virginia , and in Camden County in North Carolina . It commences at a creek , called Deep creek , which runs into the south branch of Elizabeth River . It ...
... DISMAL SWAMP CANAL . THIS canal is twenty - two miles long , in Norfolk County in Virginia , and in Camden County in North Carolina . It commences at a creek , called Deep creek , which runs into the south branch of Elizabeth River . It ...
Page 87
... Dismal Swamp Canal are only eighteen feet wide , and the Canal only six feet deep , so that no man should think of taking his vessel through there if it has more than seventeen feet nine inches beam , or draws more than five feet six ...
... Dismal Swamp Canal are only eighteen feet wide , and the Canal only six feet deep , so that no man should think of taking his vessel through there if it has more than seventeen feet nine inches beam , or draws more than five feet six ...
Page 108
... DISMAL SWAMP . I have already told you that a great many shingles are made ... canal which I described to you before . The roads are made entirely of poles ... swamp in all directions , and to a great distance . The shingles are carted ...
... DISMAL SWAMP . I have already told you that a great many shingles are made ... canal which I described to you before . The roads are made entirely of poles ... swamp in all directions , and to a great distance . The shingles are carted ...
Page 115
... Dismal Swamp Canal ; and one day I went with a friend to see the Lake . We went in a small boat , towed by a horse , with a long line , which reached from the horse , as he walked along the bank , to the boat floating along in the canal ...
... Dismal Swamp Canal ; and one day I went with a friend to see the Lake . We went in a small boat , towed by a horse , with a long line , which reached from the horse , as he walked along the bank , to the boat floating along in the canal ...
Page 41
... DISMAL SWAMP . THE principal business of this place ( Deep Creek ) , at the north end of the canal , is selling shingles , of which mention has been often made before . Many of these are made by cutting down and work- ing up green ...
... DISMAL SWAMP . THE principal business of this place ( Deep Creek ) , at the north end of the canal , is selling shingles , of which mention has been often made before . Many of these are made by cutting down and work- ing up green ...
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