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cottage situated beside the stream 1 mile below the scene of the 
~ outburst narrowly escaped being washed away. A deposit of peat 
was left on the banks of the stream for a considerable distance. 
There is evidence of several similar slides having taken place in 
the district.’ 
Outside Ireland the bursting of bogs appears to be a pheno- 
menon of great rarity. Klinge, in a valuable Paper on bog 
eruptions states that, after a diligent search through European 
literature, he has been able to discover only two examples that did 
not occur in this country. To these we are not able to add more 
than two others. Abstracts of the accounts of these occur- 
rences are given below in chronological order. 
Account oF Boc-FLows ELSEWHERE THAN IN IRELAND. 
A.D. 1768, autumn. Stuckhauser bogs, Trewenfeld, Duchy of 
Oldenburg.—Lasius states’ that an outburst of this bog took 
place, similar to that of Tullamore, but of less extent; it lies 
over the ordinary marsh floor, which is impervious to water, and 
is more than 20 feet deep. ‘The summer was exceedingly wet, 
and doubtless this is the explanation of the occurrence.” 
A.D. 1772, December 16. Solway Moss, Cumberland, England.— 
Lyell states that the bog, on December 16th, 1772, having 
been filled like a great sponge with water during heavy rains, 
swelled to an unusual height above the surrounding country, and 
then burst. The turfy covering seemed for a time to act like the 
skin of a bladder retaining the fluid within, till it forced a passage 
for itself, when a stream of black half-consolidated mud began at 
first to creep over the plain, resembling in its rate of progress an 
ordinary lava-current. No lives were lost, but the deluge totally 
overwhelmed some cottages, and covered 400 acres. The highest 
parts of the original moss subsided to the depth of about 25 feet, 
and the height of the moss, on the lowest parts of the country 
which it invaded, was at least 15 feet. 
1 Information supplied by Mr. H. C. Moore, C. E., Dungiven. 
2 Lesquereux, Untersuchungen tiber Torfmoor: German edition by Lengerke, with 
remarks by Sprengel and Lasius, 1847, p. 165, Anmerk. 
