This region was compared to Lake Avernus and Sodom as places devoid of animals in the official account of a survey of it, which was also documented by the same author in a “Secret History” of the expedition. Sylviane A. Diouf argued that this region’s population was lower than the thousands reported by Herbert Aptheker. People in this region healed wounds with “Oak of Jerusalem” according to Moses Grandy, (15[1])who reported his life here as a “waterman.” (15[1])Frederick Law Olmsted interviewed a lumberman about this panther-stalked region’s tracking dogs. William (*) Byrd II’s cursory 1728 survey of this region inspired plans to shrink it with a canal that began with (10[1])the “Washington ditch.” (10[1])Milly’s gospel singing convinces Dred (10[1])not to revolt in a (10[1])novel (10[1])titled for this area by Harriet (10[1])Beecher Stowe. For 10 points, many maroons escaped to what North Carolina and Virginia wetland? ■END■ (10[1])