the footing about the Pitt-, which is guefsed to be the natural 
heighcof the Ground, though the Bank be <5. foot higher , ac- 
cidentally raifed by rubbifli of long making Salt, or WMng, as 
they call it, In other places the Springs lye much flialloweri 
for in two places within our Townfhip the Springs break up fo 
in the Meadows , as to frett away not only the grafs ^ but part 
of the earth , which lyes like a breach^at leaft halfe a foot or 
more lower than the turfe ofthe Meadow 3 and hath a Salt li- 
quor, oi^fingjasitwerejOUtof the mudd, bat very gently. 
2 . What kinct of Comtrj 'tis thcreabot^t^ where the Springs are 5 
whither Hilly ^c. ^ And what Plants grow near them i Om Coun- 
try is generally a low ground ^ witnefs the name given to it (jhe 
Vale Royal of England:, ) yet 'tis very full of Collicular Emi- 
nencies, and various Rifings^to diftinguifli it from being all Mea- 
dow, We have dfo a peculiar fort of ground in this County 
and fome adjacent parts, which we call Mofes 5 and they are 
a kind of Moorifh boggy ground, very ftringy, and fatt : which 
ferveth us very well for Turfs^cutt out like great Bricks and dried 
in the Sun. And this kind of ground is fo much here, that there 
are fewTownfliips but they have their particular Mofles. In 
thefe is found much of that Wood we call Firr-wced, which 
ferves the Country-people for Candles, Fewel, and fometimes 
fbrfmali Timber-vfes and this the Vulgar concludes to have 
layn there fince the Flood. But generally thefe MofTes feem 
to be places undermined by fome Subterraneous ftreams; or 
by the diffolution of fome matter, that made them equal with 
the reft of the ground formerly : In which conjediure I am confir- 
med by this. That near a place of My Lord Cholmondelefs^czU 
led M^r/jy, about p, or 10. years fince, not far from one of thefe 
MofTes, without any Earth« quake 5 fell in, a piece of ground a- 
bour 30. yards over, with an huge noife , and great Oakes grow- 
ing on it fell with it together which hung firft with part of 
their heads out, afterwards fuddenly funck down into the 
grounds, foas to become invifible: Out of which Pitt they 
drew Brine with a pitcher tyedtoa cart- rope, but could then 
find no bottom with the ropes they had there : Since, the Pitt is 
filledup with water 3 and now doth not tafte Salt, bat a very 
little bragkifli, a very fmail lindlet pafling through it* The 
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