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Brent Tarter <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 4 Jan 2007 07:59:21 -0500
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There is a discussion of filthy watercourse names in Rick Beeman's
EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTHERN BACK COUNTRY (1984), but it includes no
information about the 19th-century renaming of them, which gave them
more "modest" names.

Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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