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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
Left from the center of Chatham on the Myersville road to the GREAT SWAMP, 2.6 miles, about 7 miles long and 3 miles wide. Here, in the Ice Age, was a lake caused by the North American glacier's choking the old outlet of Passaic River. The river was diverted by the debris thrust ahead of the ice mass into its present hairpin course about 30 miles to the north, before finding a new outlet at Passaic Falls, Paterson, on its way to the sea. The remnant of the ancient lake, stagnant and decrepit under the weight of its 20,000 years, lingers in the Great Swamp in black pools oozing up between clumps of moss and stunted trees. At some spots near the edges drainage has produced hay crops, but there is no human habitation. The swamp's most important citizens are wary, beady-eyed muskrats who have paid rent with their skins for centuries, first to the Indians and then to the white men.
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