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This swamp was long a very dismal place. Fish, and water-birds, and rats inhabited it: and here and there stood the hut of a fowler; or a peat-stack raised by the people who lived on the hills round, and who obtained their fuel from the peat-lands in the swamp. There were also, sprinkled over the district, a few very small houses cells belonging to the Abbey of Saint Mary, at York.
You must have observed a certain peculiarity of moorland climates the same being true of the Roman Campagna, and of Irish peat-lands that they are colder than elsewhere in the absence of the sun, and warmer in its presence. This afternoon I will tell you "
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