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size. In some of the "greenings " or white cedar swamps 

 the soil is a soft mud, and the trees gain a support or 

 hold chiefly from the general network of roots. In the 

 Dismal Swamp and the great Oketinokee a large portion 



Fig. 15. Used to Water (Cyi>i'<"^s about Lake Xonis, Florida) 



of the land is constantly under water, and these swamps 

 have more the appearance of grassy lakes. 



Stretches of these swamps are entirely baie of ti-ees 

 and take on the regular lake chai-acter, while otliei- ])()r- 

 tions appear like overflowed marsh lands, dotted with 

 so-called ''houses," or small clusters of gnarly cypress 

 festooned witli long streamers of Spanish moss, wliicli 

 help to emphasize their weird, fantastic appearance. 



