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13118
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In an excerpt from his 1860s book, Sketches of Lower Carolina, Ruffin discusses the arduous task of digging the Great Dismal Swamp Canal. Extending from Virginia into North Carolina, the canal is 22 miles long and permits passage for vessels of five-foot draft or less.
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13119
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Showing a portion of a draft of a map of North Carolina from 1766, the image contained herein was additionally published in Sheer's, West India Pilot, 1771. Containing only a small portion of the state, the map shows the southeastern Outer banks from Cape Lookout to Cape Hatteras. This is the fourth publication in a series by The State. The first part of the map was printed in the March 1957 issue, on pages 24-25. The second part is in the April 1957 issue, on page 23. The third portion is in the second April 1957 issue, on page 19.
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