. Book of the Royal blue . Book of the Royal Blue. Published MonthlyCopyright, igo6, by the Passenger Department, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. (All rights reserved.) William Elliott Lowes, Editor. BALTIMORE, DECEMBER, 1906. No. 3. THE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP ITS HISTORY AND MYSTERY. rri QLKSTION that is concerningI /\ I ™^y °^^ residents at Norfolk is\1 \\ whether in the course of the next fifty years the Great Dismal Swamp,which has been a to travelersever since the settlement of the Virginia ern part of Virginia, but the progress ofits drainage has been so rapid in the lastquarter centur
. Book of the Royal blue . Book of the Royal Blue. Published MonthlyCopyright, igo6, by the Passenger Department, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. (All rights reserved.) William Elliott Lowes, Editor. BALTIMORE, DECEMBER, 1906. No. 3. THE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP ITS HISTORY AND MYSTERY. rri QLKSTION that is concerningI /\ I ™^y °^^ residents at Norfolk is\1 \\ whether in the course of the next fifty years the Great Dismal Swamp,which has been a to travelersever since the settlement of the Virginia ern part of Virginia, but the progress ofits drainage has been so rapid in the lastquarter century that it is now a problemwhether it will not be converted within aneasily conceivable space of time into arableland. Where once, in solitary beauty, was. SPEfTItES OF MAL SWAMI colony—and heaven knows how long beforethat time—will not be practically a thingof the past. From the earliest days of American his-tory its recesses have gloomed in the south- Lake Drummond, set like a jewel in theshadows of the bogs around it, will thereappear some day the plow and the farmerscheerful cottage. Where now go snakywater-courses will there then be pleasant THE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP—ITS HISTORY AND MYSTERY. drives? It is a possibility to interest everymind. The Great Dismal Swamp is a tract ofabout 800 si|uare miles, having its northernedge in Virginia, about four or five milesfrom Norfolk and extending for about fortymiles southerly into North Carolina, with anaverage width of twenty miles. It may belikened to a huge sponge, out of which thewater of the surrounding country is sup-plied. In its center is Lake Drummond, asheet of water about three by six surface of this lake is twenty-one feet He made but a mile a day in his surveythrou
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