{ 5oi ) 
Whilft I fpeak of Moffes, allow me to add this, which 
feems to me notable, (viz..') That in a Mofs near the 
Town of Elgin in Murray , tho 3 there be no River or 
Water that runs into the Mofs, yet three or four Feet 
in the Mofs, there is a fort of little Shell-Fifh refem- 
bling Oyfters, found numeroufly in the very body of 
the Peats, and the Fifti alive within them ; tfao* no fuch 
Fifli be found in any Water near to that Mofs, nor in 
any adjacent River $ no, nor in the ftagnating Pits, that 
are in that Mofs ; but only in the very fubftance of the 
Turf: Some of which were fent to me from the place, 
a little before I came from Scotland. Sir, your own 
command will excufe this trouble given by 
Tour mojl humble Servant, 
Cromertie. 
Y y 
V. Aft 
