Lexicographical Neighbors of Pocosins
Literary usage of Pocosins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905), North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1894)
"... red bay, and loblolly bay, and less frequently small black gums and loblolly
pines. « t During certain seasons of the year these pocosins are swamps ..."
2. The Soils and Agriculture of the Southern States by Hugh Hammond Bennett (1921)
"Bays, pocosins, savannas, upland swamp, tidal marsh, and mangrove swamp. ...
Bays and pocosins represent areas of flat to slightly depressed land having ..."
3. Report of the Geological Survey of North Carolina: Vol. I. Physical by North Carolina State Geologist (1875)
"Swamps, pocosins and Savannahs.—There is a large aggregate of territory (between
3000 and 4000 square miles), mostly in the counties bordering on the sea ..."
4. Pamphlets on Forestry in North Carolina (1897)
"THE POND PINE pocosins. These, as the name implies, have the pond pine as the
distinctive growth. With it are the white bay, red bay, and loblolly bay, ..."
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