ller if a Country, famous for lazinefs,as Ireland is,abound 
with them. To fhewyou^how waiitofiaduftry caufes Bogs, 
you muft remember, that /r^/\?W abounds with fprings i 
that thefe fprings are generally dry, or near dry, in the 
Summertime and the Grafs, and weeds grow thick about 
the places where they burft out. In the winter they fwelU 
and run and foften, and loo/en all the Earth about 
them ; now that fwerd or fcurf of the Earth, that con- 
fifts of the roots of grafs, being lifted up and made fuzzy 
by the water in the winter, (as 1 have at the head of lome 
fprings leen it lift up a foot or two,) is dried in the fpring: 
and doth no^ fall together, but wither in a tuft , and 
new grafs fprings through it i which, the next winter is 
again lift up, and fo the fpring is more and more ftopt, 
the fcurf grows tl^icker and thicker till atfirftitmakc 
that which we call a quaking Bog : and as it grows higher^, 
and dryer, and the grafs roots and other vegetables be- 
come more putrid together with the mud and flime of 
rhe water it acquires a blacknefs, and grows into that 
which we call a turfBog> I believe when the vegetables 
rot the faline particles are generally wafhed away 
with the water, as being apt to be diluted in it 5 but the 
oyly or fulphureal are thofe that chiefly remain, and 
fwim on the water, and this is that which gives turf its in- 
flammability .To make this apear,'tis to be obferved that 
in /r^/^;^^ourhighefl: mountains are covered with Bogs^ 
as well as the plains,- becaufe our mountains abound 
more with fprings then could be imagined ; I remember 
one high mountain, in the north of Ireland, has 4 Loughs 
t)n the fide of it near the top; now no body living on 
t)ur mountains 5 and no care being taken to clear the 
iprings/the whole mountains are overrun v/ith as 
lhavedefcribed. 
2, It is to be obferved, that Ir eland Aot\\ abound in 
moffemore then, I believe, any Kingdom ; in fo much 
that it is very troublefom, being apt to fpoil fruit trees, 
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