Brandywine swamps

Great swamplands dominated both banks of the Brandywine below the Old Forest.The The Marish and the Overbourne Marshes were parts of it.In the Southfarthing round Sarn Ford and to the southrn bounds the Brandywine marshes, fed by the rivers Fayne and [Reedly]] as well as several smaller streams, were also known as Southern Marshes or Swamps of Siragale.These swamps were homes to quicksand, poisonous snakes, insects, and fevers. The biggest river pikes were powerful enough to injure a swimmer, but they were obliged by their nature to take prey they could swallow whole.The most dangerous "moss-backs", great, scarred pikes ten to twenty  feet in length, were creatures of legend, appearing in fishing lore once or twice in a century ; they were reputed to be capable of taking and swallowing a small Hobbit.In practice, even pike of this size were more of a danger to [ducklings and pet frogs than to any fisherman.