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the valley at the rate of about 2 yards an hour, with a front 
_ 200 yards wide, and about 8 feet deep. ... It continued to 
move for more than a month. 
~ © About the same time the Ferret bog, about 16 miles north- 
east of Kilnalady, was strongly agitated, boiling up to a great 
height.””! 
A.D. 1821, September. Joyce Country, County Gahvay.— 
“Upwards of a hundred acres of land, on which crops were 
growing and several families resided, were heard.to emit a sound 
resembling thunder; the earth then became convulsed, and even- 
tually this large tract moved down towards the sea, leaving the 
whole route over which it passed a complete waste.’” 
A.D. 1824, December 22. Bog of Ballywindelland, Coleraine.— 
A portion of this bog containing 80 or 100 acres gave way and 
passed into an adjoining valley; it gradually advanced on the 
firm land, during the day, at the rate of 2 feet per minute. 
A.D. 1831, January. Bog near Geevagh, Co. Sligo.— After 
a sudden thaw of snow, the bog between Bloomfield and 
Geevah gave way; and a black deluge, carrying with it the 
contents of 100 acres of bog, took the direction of a small stream, 
and rolled on with the violence of a torrent, sweeping along heath, 
timber, mud, and stones, and overwhelming many meadows and 
arable land. On passing through some boggy land, the flood 
swept out a wide and deep ravine, and a part of the road leading 
from Bloomfield to St. James’s Well was completely carried away 
from below the foundation for the breadth of 200 yards.’ 
A.D. 1835, Sept. 17. Fuairloch Moss, Randalstown, Co. Antrim. 
(A very large bog overlooking a valley.)—All day a portion 
of it swelled up till the convexity was 350 feet in height; at 
5 p.m., with a sound like a loud, rushing wind, it sank 
several feet, and a collection of tufts, mud, and water moved 
N.E., not rapidly, and soon stopped. It swelled up again, 
and about midday on the 19th, it again burst with a 
similar noise, and the flow crept on till the 2lst, when it ceased 
1 Census of Ireland for the year 1851, part v., vol. i., 1856, pp. 189, 190. 
2 Thid., p. 90. 3 Tbid., p. 198. 
4 Lyell, ‘‘ Principles of Geology,’’ 10th ed., vol. ii., p. 504. 
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