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hood. Some of the timber used in building the church at Wreay, 

 and also that employed in the consti action of the singular-looking 

 pulpit there, was made out of wood dug out of Wragmire Moss. 

 This Moss, and therefore, the trees therein imbedded, is shewn to 

 have been pre-roman in date by the discovery of a massive 

 (Roman) framework of wood underlying the present road across 

 the Moss. 



I cannot conclude without referring to the famous outburst of 

 the Solway Moss in this county described by Gilpin, and again 

 referred to by Mr. Holmes in Part VI. of our Transactions, which 

 occurred on the night of the i6th December, 1772. That scene 

 of desolation has now been brought under cultivation once more ; 

 but if that mass of peat had been allowed to remain after the 

 outburst, what are now the fine grazing parks of Netherby might 

 have been to-day little else than a barren peat-moss. 



That all mosses are capable of being brought under cultivation, 

 there is no doubt. But of that aspect of the subject I propose to 

 treat on some future occasion. 



