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it ierves to work iron, and as I have bin informed, will 
ferve to make it in a bloomery or iron-work ; turf charc- 
ed I reckon the Iweeteft and wholfomeft fire, that can be; 
fitter for a Chamber, and confumptive People, then ei- 
ther wooclj ftone-coal or char-coal. 
1 know not if it will be worth the ob(erving, that a 
T^^r/^fii^preierves things ftrangely,^a Corps will ly intire 
in one, tor leverall years 5 I have feen a piece ot leather 
pretty frefh dug out of a Turf-Bo^, that had never in the 
memory ot man been dug before ; Butter has bin found, 
that had lain above 20 years, and tho' not fit to be eaten, 
yet ferved well enough to greaze wool : Trees are found 
found, and intire in them, and thofe Birch, or Alder that 
arevery lubjedto rot. The Trees are fuppoled by the ig- 
norant vulgar to have lyen there ever fince theFlood, but 
the truth is, they fell on the iurface of the Earths and the 
Bog, as I fliewed in the beginning of this difcours, fwel- 
ling by degrees, at laft covered them 5 and being of an 
Oi,ly vegetable fubftance, it, like a balfam, prelerves 
them ; the Trees burn very well and ferve for torches in 
the night : I have feen them u(d as Lights in catching of 
Salmons: I have feen of the Trees half funk into the 
^c^^j-, and not quite covered.- 
I am in the laft place to fbew you how thefe inconve- 
niencysmaybe remedied, and our Bogs made uiefullj 
'Tis certain the thing is poffiblcj it has bin done in Eng^ 
la??d,Fra?zce^,andGer?nany s and if we had the fame indul- 
try we may promife our felves the fame fuccefs. I know 
men commonly diil:ingui(li between Bogs that have no 
fall to carry away the v/ater from them, and thofe that 
have ; and ^determine' the laft drainable, but not the 
firPc ; but I muft profefs I never obferved one Bog without 
a fall fufficient to drain it, nor do I "believe there is any. 
But the great a$id weighty ob;€(ftion againft them is the 
charge ; and iirfiSv Commoiily thought, that it willcoit 
much more then would pufchafe an eqnall fcope of 
