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A map of the British Empire in America (1746) (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It's actually a wetlands/swamp that stretches from Norfolk into north Carolina. Most people don't really realize that most of the area south of the Mid-Atlantic coast was at one point all swamp/marsh. The Great dismal swamp was nearly 3 times as large only a couple hundred years ago.

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