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ments made during the last forty years, we may predict 

 that before the end of the present Century scarcely a 

 vestlo-e of the peatbog in this district wiU be discoverable, 

 and the future botanist ^vill seek in yain for those rare 

 indio-enous plants which now flourish in this district. 



Such are some of the changes the surface of the earth 

 is now nndergoing, from natural as well as artiflcial causes. 



The survey of the river Parrett and its trlbutary streams, 

 with observatlons on King's Sedgemoor, and the extensive 

 marshes bordering on the rivers Parrett, Tone, Ivel, and 

 Ile, will form the subject of a future paper. 



