Athletics and manly sport . - • vMV»V. CANOEING IN THE DISMAL SWAMP The Dismal Swamp of Virginia and NorthCarolina is one of the celebrated features of theAmerican continent. Its name is almost as famil-iar as Niagara or the Rocky Mountains. Its limitsare not easily defined, no careful survey or goodmap of the region having ever been made. It liesin two States, on the Virginia side in the countiesof Nansemond and Princess Anne, and on theNorth Carolina side in the counties of Gates, Pas-quotank, Camden, and Currituck. Almost in thecentre lies Lake Drummond, or ^ the Lake of theDismal Swamp, wh
Athletics and manly sport . - • vMV»V. CANOEING IN THE DISMAL SWAMP The Dismal Swamp of Virginia and NorthCarolina is one of the celebrated features of theAmerican continent. Its name is almost as famil-iar as Niagara or the Rocky Mountains. Its limitsare not easily defined, no careful survey or goodmap of the region having ever been made. It liesin two States, on the Virginia side in the countiesof Nansemond and Princess Anne, and on theNorth Carolina side in the counties of Gates, Pas-quotank, Camden, and Currituck. Almost in thecentre lies Lake Drummond, or ^ the Lake of theDismal Swamp, which is seven miles by five inextent, according to local records, but three milesby two and a half by our measurement. The areaof the swamp is between eight hundred and onethousand square miles. Its reputation is that of amorass of forbidden and appalling gloom, a regionimpenetrable to the search of student or hunter;the fecund bed of fever and malaria, infested with (351) 352 ETHICS OF BOXING AKD MANLY SPORT. deadly serpents and wild
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