kimerajamm
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 Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 9:19 am Post subject: A tour thro' |
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The surface, at a distance, looks black and dirty, and is indeed frightful to think of, for it will bear neither horse or man, unless in an exceeding dry season, and then not so as to be passable, or that any one should travel over them ... What nature meant by such a useless production, 'tis hard to imagine; but the land is entirely waste, except ... for the poor cottagers fuel, and the quantity used for that is very small.[6]
—Daniel Defoe, A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies
Peat bogs sometimes burst their boundaries, particularly after being subjected to heavy rainfall, and this seems to have happened with Chat Moss in the 16th century. John Leland, writing during the reign of King Henry VIII, described one such event:
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