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^and quickfets; I do not remember, that they, who 
have written of Gardening, or Orchards, mention it, 
which I am fure they would,had they bin as much troubl- 
ed with it, as we are; now this mofs is of divers kinds, 
and that which grows in Bogs is remarkable , your light 
fpungy^z^r/ is nothing but a congeries of the thredsof 
this mofs, as I have frequently obferved, before itbefuf- 
ficiently rotten, /and then the turf looks white and is 
light, j I have feen it in fuch quantitysand fo tough that 
the turf Ipades, could not cut it ; in the north oi Ireland^ 
they, by way of joque call it old wives torv, and curfeher 
that buryed it, when it hinders them in cutting the turf, 
it is not much unlike flax: the turf- holes in time grow 
up with it again, and all the little gutters in Bogs are ge- 
nerally filled with it ; and truly I chiefly impute the red-^ 
or turf Bogy to it; and from it even the hardened turi 
when broken, is ftringy; tho* there plainly appear in it 
partsof other vegetables : it is obfervablc that both ve- 
getables and Animals have very difi^erent forms, when 
they are kept under and when out of the water s & I am 
almofl: ("from fome obfervations,^ tempted to believe 
that the feed of this Bog-mofsy when it falls on dry and 
parched ground begets the Heath: however the mofs is 
lb fuzzy and quick growing a vegetable, that it mightily 
flops the Iprings, and contributes to thicken the fcurf e- 
fpecially in red £©^j-,whcre only I remember to have ob- 
lerved it. 
3, It is to be obferved, that the bottom oiBegs is gene- 
rally a kind of white clay, ©r rather fandy marie ; a lit- 
tle water makes it exceeding foft j and when it is dry it 
isalldufl:; and this contributes miich-tathe fwelling^ 
the Bogs ; for the rootsof the gtafsdo not ftick faft in/it ; 
b'lt a little wet loofens them, and the water eaiiry gets in 
be ween the lurface of the earth and them, and lifts up 
the ^urface, as a dropfy doth the skin. 
4, -Tis to be obferved, that Bogs zxq generally higher 
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