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in these parts called Ambergris Point, where the Spaniards usually come once 

 a year to look for it. This vast quantity was divided in 2 parts ; supposed by 

 rolling and tumbling in the sea. But what I have chiefly to inform you of, 

 is the way in which it is produced ; viz. from a creature, as honey or silk ; for 

 I saw in sundry places of this mass, the beaks, wings, and part of the body of the 

 creature, and this ignorant fellow has seen the creature alive ; and he adds, that 

 he believes they swarm as bees, on the sea-shore or in the sea.* 



Account of a moving Bog in Ireland. N° 233, p. 714. 



June 7, 1697, near Charleville, in the county of Limerick, in Ireland, a 

 great rumbling, or faint noise, was heard in the earth, much like the sound of 

 thunder nearly spent. For a little time the air was somewhat troubled with 

 little whisking winds, seeming to meet contrary ways : and soon after that, to 

 the greater terror of a great number of spectators, a more wonderful thing hap- 

 pened ; for in a bog the earth began to move, viz. meadow and pasture land 

 that lay on the side of the bog, and separated by an extraordinary large ditch, 

 and other land on the further side adjoining to it ; and a rising, or little hill, 

 in the middle of the bog, hereupon sunk flat. This motion began about 

 7 o'clock in the evening, fluctuating in its motion like waves, the pasture- 

 land rising very high, so that it over-ran the ground beneath it, and moved 

 upon its surface, rolling on with great pushing violence, till it had covered 

 the meadow, and remains upon it 16 feet deep. In the motion of this 

 earth, it drew after it the body of the bog, part of it lying on the place 

 where the pasture-land, that moved out of its place, had before stood ; 

 leaving great breaches behind it, and spewings of water that cast up noisome 

 vapours : and so it continues at present, to the amazement of all that come to 

 view it. 



A true description of the Bog of Kapanihane, on the Estate of Brook Bridges, 

 Esq. in the County of Limerick, near Charleville, with an Account of its 

 Motion, June the 7 th, l6g7 , which lasted about half an Hour. Communicated 

 by PV. Mohjneux, Esq. N° 233, p. 714. 



The quantity of this bog is about 40 acres. Adjoining to it is a piece of 



* It has been mentioned in a former vol. of these Trans, that ambergris is now generally believed 

 to be an excreoientitious substance voided from the spermaceti whale^ the physeter macrocephalus. 

 Linn. 



