Abstract
Describes the sudden bursting of the peat surface of the Solway Moss, above and west of the Esk River, and the destruction that followed, through initial reports from the Scots Magazine, the account by John Walker in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and two accounts by Thomas Pennant, one before the disaster and a fuller one after, in his Tour in Scotland... in 1772 (1774).
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Deans, Alex
(2021)
"'This Prodigious Mass': The Eruption of the Solway Moss in 1771,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 47:
Iss.
1, 15–28.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol47/iss1/3