A moving bog has been lately witnessed on a part
of Lord O'Neill's estate, in the neighbourhood of Randalstown, on the Ballymena road, and about two and a half miles from the former town. On the 19th ultimo, in the evening, the first movement occured. A person who was near the ground was surprised to hear a sort of rumbling noise, as if under the earth ; and immediately after his surprise was not a little increased on perceiving a part of the bog move, pretty rapidly for- ward, a distafice of a few perches. It then halted, and exhibited a broken, rugged appearance, with a soft peaty substance boiling up through the chinks. It remained in this state till the 22d, when it suddenly moved forward at a quick rate, covering corn.fields, potato- fields, turf-stacks, hay in ricks, &c. ; not a vestige of which now remains to be seen. So sudden and rapid was this movement, that the adjacent mail-coach road was covered in a few minutes, or rather mo- ments, to a depth of nearly twenty feet. It then directed its course towards the River Maine, which lay below it ; and so great was its force, and such the quantity of matter carried along, that the moving mass was forced a considerable way across the river. In consequence of the late heavy rains, the river has again found its channel through the matter deposited in its bed ; otherwise the water would been forced back, and immense damage done to the land on the bunks. The fish in the river have been killed for a considerable distance. The damage done by the mossy inundation has been very considerable. About 150 acres of excellent arable land have been covered, and ren- dered totally useless. Down the middle of the projected matter a channel has been formed, through which there is a continual flow of a dark, peaty substance over ground where, only two weeks ago, the reapeis were at woik. A house close by the road is so far over- wheln- ed that only a part of the roof is to be seen. Besides the actual damage sustatUtl, the utmost alarm prevails ; and the pr ople living adjacent to the place have been removing their furniture, tke. to a dis'ance.—Northern Whig.
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