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dentally drained by the people’s digging peat for fuel. V Where this is the caſe, as it is in a great many neee: it forms a thick and ſweet turf, full of white clover; a ind the EUS and(heep eat it off Very ea likewiſe ſaw ſome of theſe accidental ſpots tha were planted with potatoes, which promiſed to be very 899 crops.—It is very ſtrange that theſe inſtances of acc provement, ſo very plain to be ſeen, ſhould not ſet Peeters of theſe diftri@ts to work to drain on 2 large walked round Buxton, viewed the SA&c. wonderful place, and there is a wonderful contraſt betw rdäbimifident buildings and the dreary moors and wa nearly éncompaſs the rown. Rida is a great pity buc ſome pa the AS that is ſpent here in difipation ihould be applie draining theſe diſmal moors, lidleſs them, cultivate them, piant ſome of their ſummits with timber; for the barreneſt and moſt expoſed part oſ them would bear ſome of the h: ardieft kinds.— All the brooks and running waters here about are cc loured black by the moor peat. They look like the water that drains from a farm-yard.

ORIGIN OF PEAT.

Peat conſiſts entirely of dead vegetables. I never knew peat but it was fed by a o s ſpring of water. Water that is hard and inſalubrious will never form a peat. But it is water that 18 ſoft, and containing innumerable les of ve fe- table food, that forms the richeſt peat-bo i ct was Si

Ea formed by ſubterraneous wate even a curſory view of this country. There are manyÿ of the

Ils here- about(as much elevated as thoſe which are cd

covered with peat) that have none at all on their ſummits, and but a few patches on their middles, or their bottoms; and thei ſe pa= in Var1: raes 7 where ſubtérraneous water breaks out Sli Ss if peat was not formed by ſubterraneous water, it W E mh 8 cover every hill that has the' ſame altitude“hus fi formation of peat. The next conhderati

away, ſo as to leave there is Ho doubt of the eats s becoming a rich I would recommend the making drains on the parallel tothe horizon; RS the

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„ock, or whatever iS under che pe ‘deal,and uſing the auger whenever c earth,&c. that comes out ofthe d to be made as near to each othe quires. The lafit circumſtance ex the banks formed by the earth, even onits ſides, T would recom

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