See dismal in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1908, Charles Lee Coon, The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina: A Documentary History, 1790-1840, page 949:",
"text": ".[…] the proprietors of all the great unimproved tracts of Swamp lands will form themselves into Drainage Companies, by which method alone can we ever hope to witness the complete reclamation of the dismals of the seaboard. No reasonable doubt can be entertained that the clearing and draining of the lands will produce their usual effects in ameliorating the climate and that the tidal portions of No. Caro- lina may thus[…]",
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"ref": "2020 May 1, Hudson, Berman, Our Good Earth: A Natural History of Soil, Algora Publishing, →ISBN, page 167:",
"text": "The term \"Dismal\" requires some clarification. At one time, all large swamps in eastern North Carolina were commonly referred to as \"dismals,\" probably because they were so gloomy, dreary, and dark, and there are a lot of swamps or \"dismals\" in eastern North Carolina.",
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