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The Great Dismal Swamp and Peat Lands
The great dismal swamp has more black bears per capita than any other place in the United States, other than maybe Minnesota. Peat lands are where most cranberries, blueberries, cloudberries grow. There are more than 500 pharmaceuticals that can be found in peat lands. The enslaved people who escaped from plantations or who escaped from the labor that George Washington and his crew inflicted on them would escape to the farther recesses of the swamps.
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