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 XL. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



DISRUPTION OF A BOG IN YORKSHIRE. 



GREAT interest and some alarm have been excited in Leeds 

 and its neighbourhood by the disruption of a bog on 

 Crow-hill, on the borders of Lancashire, the contents of which 

 have been poured into the river Aire, to the extreme inconveni- 

 ence and annoyance of the manufacturers upon its banks. On 

 Friday morning, the 3d instant, the river at this place, which 

 was rather swollen, appeared of a colour unusually dark, and 

 which deepened so much in the course of the day that the ma- 

 nufacturers found it impossible to use the water for any pur- 

 pose of business ; and on Saturday morning it was still worse. 

 The water, when taken into a glass, appeared nearly as black 

 as ink ; and on being analysed, was found to leave a large re- 

 siduum of vegetable matter resembling peat. In consequence 

 of this state of the river, it became necessary to suspend en- 

 tirely many processes in the woollen manufacture, and when 

 it was found that there was no alteration on Monday for the 

 better, much uneasiness was generally expressed as to the pro- 

 bable duration. On Sunday, a letter was received at this 

 office from the Rev. Mr. Bronte, a Minister of the Established 

 Church, residing at Haworth, which gave some explanation of 

 this extraordinary phaenomenon : this communication stated, 

 that about six o'clock on Thursday evening, the high lands, on 

 the Moors, about four miles from Haworth, had opened into 

 chasms, from which issued two immense volumes of muddy 

 water, which had inundated the valley through which it flowed 

 to a considerable extent, doing much damage in its course. The 

 Rev. writer concluded with expressing it as his opinion, " that 

 it was the effect of an earthquake, the most considerable too, as 

 to its immediate results, that has taken place in this kingdom 

 for many generations." This communication, which was ex- 

 tensively circulated, rather increased than allayed the public 

 anxiety, as it was generally supposed that some vast subter- 

 ranean reservoir of water, the accumulation cf centuries, had 

 been laid open, which might continue for a period of indefinite 

 extent to pour its turbid waters into the Aire. The Commis- 

 sioners of the Leeds Water Works, finding that the water 

 could not be applied to any culinary or domestic purposes 

 whatever, gave notice to all the inhabitants by printed hand- 

 bills, that they should suspend the distribution of water so 

 utterly useless to them. Under these circumstances we thought 

 it right to repair to the spot, and from inquiry and personal 

 observation, endeavour to ascertain the real factsofthe case, and 

 we present the following as the result of our investigation: — 



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