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The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
a shallow body of water only navigable by light draft vessels. 50 miles long, and from 8 to 30 miles broad, separated from the Atlantic by low sandy Islands, scarcely a mile wide, covered with bushes. Pamlico Sound receives Neuse, Tar, and Pamlico rivers. Newbern is on the Neuse, at the junction of Trent river with it — the Trent being a sort of estuary of Pamlico Sound. It is not without protection; but it is unnecessary to say what. Washington is on the Tar river, at its entrance into Pamlico river, at the head of navigation for sea-going craft, and forty miles from the Sound. No large vessel can can reach it, the water not being sufficiently deep. On the north Pamlico connects with Albemarle Sound, which is sixty miles long from east to west, and from four to fifteen miles wide. It receives the waters of Roanoke and Chowan rivers, and communicates with the Chesapeake bay by the Dismal Swamp canal. Edenton is situated near the mouth of Chowan river, on Edenton