A map of the British Empire in America (1746)

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MalachaiConstant@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y

Interefting

pseudonym@monyet.cc · 9 pts · 2y

This map is moft humbly infcribed by your Majesty's moft dutiful, moft obedient, and moft humble servant

niktemadur@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

Look at The Atlantick getting all fancy on us, a CK at the end is like wearing tails and top hat, maybe even a monocle. Perhaps even a step further back, all the way to powdered wig.

swab148@startrek.website · 6 pts · 2y

W I D E F L O R I D A

NABDad@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

Florida: "It was really cold that day!"

Infynis@midwest.social · 6 pts · 2y

The British also zoned out in the middle of crossing Michigan's upper peninsula, and didn't realize how far they'd travelled, just like driving the Seney Stretch

br3d@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (5 replies)

"Sunken land and dismal swamps" - what's in that area now?

Turious@leaf.dance · 9 pts · 2y (3 replies)

It's actually got a huge area of land called The Great Dismal Swamp. Lots of park land and wilderness in rural Virginia. Someone from the area may be able to weigh in on it. I passed through years ago and the name struck me as hilarious.

Aviandelight@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 2y

If you've ever been in southern VA in the summer you'll understand the name "Dismal." It is nice that we have protected wetlands though.

TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

It's actually a wetlands/swamp that stretches from Norfolk into north Carolina. Most people don't really realize that most of the area south of the Mid-Atlantic coast was at one point all swamp/marsh. The Great dismal swamp was nearly 3 times as large only a couple hundred years ago.

br3d@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Looks like the name stuck!

JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
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kandoh@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 2y

The st Lawrence River is a lot like the Mediterranean in that if it was a Fantasy map it would not look realistic enough

Deconceptualist@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

TIL northern Ohio was once the Nation of Cat and destroyed by the Iroquois.

tallricefarmer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2y

I guess it was hard to map out ish on the west/east axis which is why Florida is janky. Things look a lot more proportional north/south