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L Part of a Letter dated ]\xnz^ , 1^97- Z^'^^^Z Acount of 4 
moving Bog in Ireland. 
ON the 7th Day oi June, 1697. near Charleville^ in the 
County of Liwerkk^m Ireland,^, great Rumbling, or faint 
Noife was heard in the Earch, much like unto the Sound of 
Thunder near fpent ; for a little Space the Air was (bmswhat 
troubled with little Whisking Winds/eeming to meet contrary 
Ways: And fbon afccr that.io the greater Terror and Afright- 
rnent of a great Number of Spscflators.a more wonderful thing 
happened ^ for In a Bog ffretching North and South, the 
Earth began to move, 'viz.. Meadow and Pafture I,and that 
liy on the fide of the Bog, and feparated by an extraordinary 
large Ditch, and oher Land on the further fide adjoining to 
it ; and a Rifing, or little Hill in the middle of the Bog here- 
upon funk flat. 
This Motion be^an about Seven of the Clock in the Even- 
ing, fiudnating in its Motion like Waves, the Pafturc Land 
xifing very high, fo that it over-run the Ground beneath it, 
and moved upon its Surface, rowling on wich great pufhing 
Violence, till it had covered the Meadow, and is held to re- 
main upon it 16 Feet deep. 
In the Motion of this Earth, ic drew after it the Body cf 
the Bog, part of it lying on the Place where the Paflure- 
Land that moved out of its Place it had before, Aood • 
leaving great Breaches behind it , and fpev\'ings of Wa- 
ter that caft up noifom Vapours: And fo it continues at pre- 
fent, to the great Wondermentof thofe that pafsby, or come 
many Miles to be Eye wiineffes of fo ftrange a thing. 
A true Defcription of the Bog of Kapanihane upon the Eftate of 
. Brook Bridges, Efcf. in the County of Limerick, near Char- 
levill • 'With an Account of the Motion thereof on the yth Day of 
June, 1697. in the Afternoon^ 'which lafi^ed about half an Hour. 
ComrKnwcated by W. Molyneux, E/^. 
j^'T^KE Line A B is the Meridian, C a Meadow contain- 
X ing I Englifb Acres, and 32^ Perches ; D firm Pa= 
ftme Land (but of a Courfe, Boggy Subftance) containing 4 
Acres 
