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This fliower, or water- fpout rather, continued little more 

 than an hour, at the conclufion of which the turf-cutters were 

 prefented with a phsenomenon much more extraordinary ; they 

 faw the turbary they had juft left, containing about ten acres, 

 floating as it were after them, 'till it fubfided at laft upon a 

 piece of low pafture of near thirty acres by the river's fide, 

 called Higgins's Park, where it fpread and fettled, covering the 

 whole, to the aftonifhment of numbers, and the very great lofs 

 of Major Carroll ; as it inftantly became, and ftill continues, 

 the wetteft and moft unprofitable piece of bog in the whole 

 country. 



Another and more confiderable injury immediately fucceeded 

 this ; the moving bog completely choaked up the river, which con- 

 fequently overflowed the back grounds, and before evening a 

 lough or lake of near fifty-five acres covered the adjacent fields. 

 Major Carroll's fine bottom meadow of thirty acres was in a few 

 hours perfedly transformed into water : Fifteen acres alfo of 

 meadow of the lands of Addergoole, belonging to poor tenants, 

 fliared the fame fate, which with the ten acres of bog that 

 moved, make up the number mentioned above ; forming a 

 confiderable lough in half a day's time, to the great prejudice 

 of many, and furprize as well as terror of the neighbour- 

 hood. 



The lake naturally increafing every hour. Major Carroll in 

 a few days colleded a great number of labourers, and began 

 to make a large drain to carry the water by the fliorteft cut to 

 the bed of the river, now dry : but perceiving the new-formed 



lough 



