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"No," thought I. "It is too far off" so on I walked till I lost sight of it, when I repented and thought I would go and see what it was. So I dashed down the moory slope on my right, and presently saw the object again and now I saw that it was water. I sped towards it through gorse and heather, occasionally leaping a deep drain. At last I reached it. It was a small lake.
'Of hard old ale, I interposed, 'which, according to my mind, is better than all the wine in the world. 'Well said, Romany Rye, said the jockey, 'just my own opinion; now, William, make yourself scarce. Leaving the bridge, I ascended a gentle acclivity, and presently reached what appeared to be a tract of moory undulating ground.
The way lay over dreary, moory hills; at last it began to descend, and I saw a valley below me with a narrow river running through it, to which wooded hills sloped down; far to the west were blue mountains. The scene was beautiful but melancholy; the rain had passed away, but a gloomy almost November sky was above, and the mists of night were coming down apace.
It is a moory flat country, full of lakes and woods, like Brandenburg; spreading out into grassy expanses, and bosky wildernesses humming with bees; plenty of bog in it, but plenty also of alluvial mud; sand too, but by no means so high a ratio of it as in Brandenburg; tracts of Preussen are luxuriantly grassy, frugiferous, apt for the plough; and the soil generally is reckoned fertile, though lying so far northward.
The fine young girl, whom I have already mentioned, and another about two years younger, departed with us. They were dressed in the graceful female attire of old Wales. We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory, quaggy ground intersected with water-courses.
Nor is this strongly expressed opinion to be wondered at, founded, as it was, upon such evidence as the following: Mr. Griffith deposed that "The mountain bog of the south of Ireland the moory bog varies in depth from nine inches to three feet, below which there is a clayey or sandy subsoil.
His uniform is of the Goltz Regiment, Infantry: Goltz Regiment, which lies at Ruppin, at and about, in that moory Country to the Northeast, some thirty or forty miles from Berlin; whither his destination now is.
Our way from Murphy's to the cave lay across a series of picturesque, moory ridges in the chaparral region between the brown foot-hills and the forests, a flowery stretch of rolling hill-waves breaking here and there into a kind of rocky foam on the higher summits, and sinking into delightful bosky hollows embowered with vines.
They also found ten miles within the snowy mountains a plain champion country, with earth and grass, such as our moory and waste grounds of England are.
Vellinghausen is a poor little moory Hamlet in Paderborn Country, near the south or left bank of the Lippe River; lies to the north of Soest, some 15 miles to your left-hand there, as you go by rail from Aachen to Paderborn; but nobody now has ever heard of it at Soest or elsewhere, famous as it once became a hundred years ago.
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