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Title: Athletics and manly sport
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: O'Reilly, John Boyle, 1844-1890
Subjects: Boxing Games Canoes and canoeing
Publisher: Boston, Pilot publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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eDismal Swamp Canal, and by this means carriedto the saw-mill at Deep Creek. The coloredworkers in the juniper groves of the swamp areits only inhabitants; they are called swampers.Let me here explain that Lake Drummond is thecentre of the swamps organism, acting preciselylike a heart. Except the Dismal Swamp Canal,which runs along the border, all the roads, canals,and ditches that pierce the swamp, radiate fromthe lake like spokes from a hub. The swamp has only one natural feature — thelake. All the rest is simply swamp. The canalsand roads are accidents. Whoever would know the Dismal Swamp muststudy it from the lake, not from the exterior.This is the reason that even those living in itsneighborhood know so little about it. Theirknowledge is local, not constitutional. A gum road is a road formed by trunks oftrees about eight feet long, laid close together,and bearing two rude wooden rails. On theserun low mule wagons or trucks, loaded with logs 372 ETHICS OF BOXING AND MANLY SPOKT.
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CANOEING ON THE DISMAL SWAMP. 373 cut in the interior. The mule goes securely onthe gum road, and the negro driver usuallywalks ahead on one of the broad rails. There was no one at Ropers saw-mill who couldgive us any information, so Ave paddled on to thevillage of Deep Creek, before reaching which wepassed through another lock. Here the DismalSwamp proper may be said to begin. At this lockwe were again raised several feet, so that we werenoAv, although only a few miles from tidal-water,probably sixteen feet above the sea level. Shall we pay toll here ? Ave asked the lock-man. Not till you come out, he answered, makingit clear that there was only one entrance and exiton this side of the Dismal Swamp. Does the swamp begin here ? Yes, said the lockman, leaning at an angle offorty degrees, and slowly pushing the great beamwith his back. It begins here, and it runs allthe way to Florida. This was true, in a way. The Avhole southerncoast is margined by swamp lands ; but the DismalSwamp is

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