>Caj. ^ MOORS, MOSSES, AKD BOGS'. 233 
>k 7 'fees. Dr . de Serra, accompanied by Sir Joseph 
Of ,■‘"16 
— , in the month of September, 1706, to 
nature and extent. They landed on one 
f "6st, a *^f^**^ tliese islets, when the ebbs were at the 
len exposed surface to be about ninety 
to a seventy-five in width. They were en- 

branches, and leaves of trees and shrubs, 
WitK I r -j’ljg remains 
*^*'tain, that these islets consist almost entirely of 
'« ''•Xe 1 branches, and leaves of trees and shrubs. 
Of n leaves of aquatic plants. The remains of 
K 'fittiij. '®„b'ees were still standing on their roots 5 but 
t(|J'**>!l, j '^be greater part of them lay scattered 00 the 
k^app^a '^'sry direction. The bark of the trees and 
in* .1 in general as fresh as when tliey were grow- 
1 birches particularly, many of which 
tbe thin sih ery membranes of the outer 
t||j discernible. I'he timber of all kinds, on the 
L bee’s . ''i decomposed and soft, in the greater part of 
'iM’ ‘*'*‘. 
l'^'’’tnt-'?***’d pieces of timber had 
.y. **^y People. 
in some was firm, especially about the 
been often found by 
.Sen, 
k be^^’ die trunks, branches, and roots of the de- 
^f b"d'"e considerably flattened, — a phenomenon 
•l>j''®lanj observed in the surtarbrand, or fossil wood 
ifiv''’iberi!, ‘"jd ^l-so in that found near the lake of Thun, 
! ailj ibe soil was chiefly composed of rotten 
ddt in a perfect stale. 
'h ’*** bein 
sVi"' 
thrown into water, many of these 
bread , about twelve miles in length, and 
%ti ***' ditr • ’ cippesife tbe shore of Sutton, at which 
'tHiJabS'’ng a well, a moor of the same nature was 
'^icl?'b*'tly Sfonud, at the depth of sixteen feet, and, 
CQ|,^b’ ''cry nearly on tlie same level witli that 
Slif d* dies the islets. On a boring being made, in 
s'tlij'*diorpg°’’ging to the Royal Society, in the parish of 
\ ^b of ascertain the course of the subterraneous 
j^lj Ppearajj^.^^'dd vegetables, a similar moor was found. 
ajti- db these decayed vegetables was found 
nSiibbw "'bh that of tlie moor which is thrown up 
ikXi V f ti 
KXir'-^du. and 
in other parts of the east 
up 
fen of 
. '*ie |j- staking the embankments ; barks, like 
being tliere abo abundantly found, 
been traced as far as Feterborough, sixty 
