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Much of their moory foil is the black 

 rotten mo fly land j but fome of it white 

 land, which is very good. The boggy parts 

 they cut a few open drains through, to better 

 the herbage, by laying it a little dry, but 

 never attempt any other improvement. In 

 many of thefe moors the foil is very deep, 

 but in feme plac s (hallow, with the r ; 

 near the lurface. 



From Gknwelt I walked about half a mile 

 to view fome of the remn mous 



Roman wall : The mod perfe it 



is on the edge of a °ky precipice, 

 about five feet high, and feve/al yard 4 - lo ; 

 the facing is of regularly cut free (tones, but 

 I meafured none of them above thirteen 

 inches long and feven bro^d ; the mortar in 

 the facing is quite gone, but much of it re- 

 mains in the middle ; very little of it is of 

 that hard nature found in fome ancient build- 

 ings, but crumbles with eafe between the 

 fingers. The ftones of the facing are cut re- 

 gularly and well laid; the workmanfhip un- 

 doubtedly very good. Not far from this wall 

 the remains of an earth intrenchment, thrown 

 up for the fame purpofe, are feen in a pa- 

 rallel line with it. 



North from Glenwelt, about five miles on 

 the river Arden, is a natural curiofity, highly 

 worth viewing : It is a very fine rock of pe^ 

 trified mofs. A dripping ftream falls over a 

 rock hung thick with mofs, which petrifies, 



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