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though not very deep, through which the brook 

 marked B ufed to run. The mofs being quite over- 

 charged with the flood, burft at thefe quags, about 

 1 1 o'clock at night, and finding a defcent at hand, 

 poured its contents through the gully into the plain. 



It furprized the inhabitants of 12 towns in their 

 beds *. Nobody was loft, but many of the people 

 faved their lives with great difficulty. Next morning, 

 thirty-five families were found difpofTefTed, with the 

 lofs of mofl: of their corn and fome cattle -f. Some of 

 the houfes were near totally covered, and others of 

 them I faw ftanding in the mofs, up to the thatch, 

 the fide walls being about 8 feet high. 



In the morning, above 200 acres were entirely 

 overwhelmed; and this body of mofs and water, 

 which was of fuch a confiftency, as to move freely, 

 continued to fpread itfelfon all hands, for feveral 

 days. It was come to a flop, when I faw it, and 

 had covered 303 acres, as I was informed by a 

 gentleman, who had looked over the plans of the 

 grounds, with Mr. Graham the proprietor: but 

 every fall of rain fets it again in motion, and it has 

 now overfpread above 400 acres. At F, it had run 

 within a mufket fhot of the port road leading from 



* Thofe who were neareft the place of burfting were alarmed 

 with the unufual noife it made j others not till it had entered 

 their houfes, or even, as was the cafe with fome, not till they 

 found it in their beds.. 



f The cafe of a cow feems lingular enough to deferve a par- 

 ticular mention. She was the only one of eight in the fame 

 cow-houfe, that was faved, after having ftood fixty hours up to 

 the neck in mud and weter. When me was got out, me did not 

 refufeto eat, but water me would not tafle, nor could even look 

 at, without (hewing manifeft figns of horror. She is now re- 

 conciled to it, and likely to recover. 



Moffat 



