Pocoson

Word POCOSON
Character 7
Hyphenation po co son
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The region inhabited by the Croatans is a low woodland, swampy region, locally known as pocoson land, abounding in whortleberries and blackberries, which bring some revenue to the people. ❋ O. M. McPherson (1915)

At the meeting of the United States Agricultural Society, at Washington, in January, 1857, Mr.G. W.P. Custis spoke in connection with the great importance of this subject, of the vast quantity of soil -- the richest conceivable -- now lying waste, to the extent of 100,000 acres, along the banks of the Lower P.tomac, and which he denominates by the old Virginia title of _pocoson_. ❋ Henry Flagg French (N/A)

After a time the party returned with the mule and soon the hind legs of the bear were closely tied together and slowly, yet successfully, the mule dragged the bear out of the pocoson. ❋ Unknown (1901)

After about a quarter of an hour's pursuit, when the depths of this pocoson had been reached, Old ❋ Unknown (1901)

On the north side of the Neuse there is a section of country extending from Wayne on the west to Falling Creek on the east, a distance of about ten miles, and known as Buckleberry pocoson. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

A savannah of several square miles is found in the upper end of the county, which merges northward into a barren pocoson of still greater extent. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

In the northeastern section lies the half of another similar pocoson nearly as large, called Angola Bay, and in the centre of the western half of the county is a third but much smaller swamp of the same general character. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

It consists largely of swamps, pocoson and oak flats. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

There is still another pocoson known as the Dover pocoson, lying between the counties of Jones and Craven on the Atlantic and North Carolina railroad, which is very fertile and heavily timbered. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

The pocoson that lies between these two rivers runs northwest and southeast to very near the Duplin line for twenty-five miles, with an average width of about eight miles of as rich land as the Mississippi Valley, and around the lakes covered with a growth of the finest quality of timbers known here. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

This pocoson is flanked on the westward toward the North-east Cape Fear river by a fringe of fertile white-oak flats and semi-swamp lands, and on the north by a strip of sandy pine flats, dotted here and there with fertile spots. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

Near its northern and eastern borders are two small pocosons, and within its southern section lies one half of the great Angola Bay pocoson, an almost impenetrable jungle of the average character of pocoson lands, with fringes of rich swamp lands on the streams that issue from it. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

The great Dover pocoson, occupying more than one hundred square miles in the southwestern angle, is elevated sixty feet above tide in its central part, and is very flat and sterile for the most part, but has strips of oak and pine flats radiating in all directions from the centre along the numerous streams. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

Holly Shelter pocoson occupies a large part of the southeastern section, and ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

Its central and western portion is occupied by the great pocoson known as Green Swamp, which, with its many projections, covers nearly half the territory of the county. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

The central portion and larger part of this great pocoson, which contains about one hundred square miles, is very nearly barren, but around its margin, especially toward the river, are considerable tracts of white-oak flats, canebrake, and swamp lands, with their characteristic growths and soils. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

A portion of the southwestern side of this county is penetrated by the Holly Shelter pocoson. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

From thence they ran the line about half a mile through a dirty pocoson, as far as an Indian field. ❋ Unknown (1841)

But this firm land lasted not long before they came upon the dreadful pocoson they had been threatened with. ❋ Unknown (1841)

Here we took up our lodging in a moist situation, having the pocoson above mentioned on one side of us, and a swamp on the other. ❋ Unknown (1841)

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