IRELAND'S VAST BOGS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2012, 20 March 1914, Page 10

IRELAND'S VAST BOGS.

Anyone who lias travelled ijwdi in Ireland. .must havo beefl impressed hy the Vast -wftftilt of 1)0)1 whkh is to b.Q SCei). iii nearly all parts, <if the ooiintry. In soiiio districts the eye ranges pvb't tracts of waste for many where iiotjitiis elsa is vigtbie. Tiws grouscBhootar On these inland plains eaWios a pocket cowjiass to guide him in_ his rambles; stud tourists ajfl often. ; ablij;ed to have recourse to the sjbhb conycm ieht instrtiMjent far Safe pilotage. : The- whole .extent of. tlrfi ■bbK : -surf9Ee rsas b'epjx to exceed 2,!)O£! V MO acres. I'fae only use to wMch they lliMms 'hitherto been turned is that of fiiei, in the shape ccf peat, BoSs tKfw great'lv in tlwir exterior natiwc, feeiflg sy;ro.c* times Sfflf't and 'soniefchMs linn, aiid hard.

Occasionally thoy undwiio great and rapid. a.itd.snddon.l.y swell ftnd burst. A j-eitiiU'kafio ease ofthis kind Occurred in the fuitnuin of 1885.

The StoKs-'iH Una:, in ,Awfcfi.uij occWyjiiS an anew .of 1i,'860 .acres, was olff.firvotl, mi the morning of. Scfitaitber ].7. in ttio.t .veaf, to rsso jmwWHy iiftotfe its HsuaJ lfvel until it aifcttivec'l a IbjirWi of thirty feet..; 'itnd iitaynt fiw iii the aftwiioaii -« fond iififso. like that of n rushing wind was hoard* n'hctl the morass, sit-adfciily opening, dtsßhttrgcfl a grcixt fiteiiivi'ti.- of hmd and iva,t£t\ ■ Tins m'ltnticM, frith sjioli-t .iirtqfKife* stou.. tofltiittiod, until' Septa?)!) Hi; 28, werflowhiß tHic eolrtt'ry id the; '(Ksfcwlcc; of iiKui.y liiifcs., iffid. doite irijJafe&lablp (lamajio. ■ Tlvft loss of property w.ottlcf Uave ham. fimcl.i larger than B Was lnit for tlifl dreutWStailcc that ih.p jlittW Maine, Avluoh (alls into Though JJen.rjh., divwt-cd the .ptasfess of the ffowiw.' nMid. which fr.;is carried down tlio rivei', causing it in some plaices to .Overftpw. Whei.i tire wftntion ceased,* ffMelFit did niitto sucltfciil.V, tlifi bog then Sauk, | Jit the- tjotnt' of tlse. outbreak, twenty, feet ftelow its original levoL irod a SMiaii: I'trtfular pool of water ofciiiiwd the ...tiol* ■ low caused by tlvr- dqwossion.—"-Got- ■ ia*'er and Artisan-"