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But I am affured, that all thefe things are gene- 
rally found at the bottom of the peat, or very near 
it. And indeed, it is always very proper to be well 
and faithfully informed of the exadt depth and place, 
where any thing of thele kinds is found ; whether it 
is in the earth above the peat, or in the clob - y or in 
the true peat, or at the bottom of it ; which will 
greatly a (lift us in forming a juft judgment of the 
real antiquity of the things that are found, or at ieaft 
of the time they have lain there. Behdes this, as 
they formerly ufed to cut out the peat in large plots 
here and there, leaving fpaces full of peat between 
thofe pits (whereas now they draw off the greateft 
part of the water by pumps, and fo clear out ail the 
peat regularly as they go on) ; fo it muft be carefully 
obferved, whether w r hatfoever is found here be dusc 
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out of thefe old peat-pits, or not ; for axes, and 
other things, may have been formerly dropt into 
thefe pits, before they were filled up again with 
earth, and may now be dug out of them again. My 
father has now in his poftelfion an iron hatchet, not 
greatly differing from the modern form, which was 
found lying fiat at the very bottom of the peat : it 
was covered with a ruft near half an inch thick, and 
the handle was to it, which feemed to be of beech- 
wood, but was fo foft, that it broke in bringing it up : 
but as the perfon is dead, who found it, I can’t fay 
whether it lay in an old peat-pit, or no. 
Mr. Ofgood found, lome years ago, an urn, of a 
light brown colour, and large enough to hold above 
a gallon, in the true peat, about eight or ten feet 
from the river, near a mile and a half weft of this 
town, in Speen-moor. It lay about four feet below 
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