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Moffat to Carlifle, when I faw it, but it is now 

 flowed over the road, and reached the Elk, This 

 river, which was one of the clearer!: in the world, is 

 now rendered black as ink, by the mixture of the 

 mofs, and no falmon has fince entered into it. A 

 farmer alfo told me, that, upon removing the mofs, to 

 get at a well which it had covered, they found all the 

 earth-worms lying dead upon the furface of the 

 ground. The land, that is covered, was all inclofed 

 with hedges, bore excellent crops of wheat and 

 turnips, and rented from between 1 1 and 14 (hillings, 

 belides the taxes and tithes, which amounted to 

 4 (hillings per acre. 



I endeavoured to guefs at the depth of the mofs 

 upon the plain, by a large thorn, which ftands in 

 the middle of it, and which is buried to above the 

 divifion of the branches. The farmers told me, 

 that it flood upon a rifing, more than 6 feet above 

 the general level of the plain 3 and that it was up- 

 wards of 9 feet high, of clear (tern. By this ac- 

 count, great part of the plain muft be covered 

 1 5 feet deep with the mofs : and near the farm 

 called Gap, there were fome confiderable hollows, 

 where they think the mofs, at prefent, lies full 

 30 feet deep. The tailed: hedges on the land are 

 all covered over the top. The houfes are not fo 

 much buried, becaufe they (lood moftly on the 

 higher parts of the fields ; and, towards the extre- 

 mities of the mofs, I obferved it, in many places, 

 not above 3 or 4 feet deep, owing likewife to the 

 riling of the ground. 



The gut at A, through which the whole of the 

 mofs flowed that covered the plain, is only about 



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