He accepted their Offer, and shared his Liquor among them.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Section 187. THE Balloon alighted near the Middle of a moss; called rixton-moss, a Place he had never before heard of.
Rixton-Moss, its Magnitude.
It was a large Tract of unenclosed wet Land, above four Miles long and above two broad, intersected by Ditches or Water Courses, which divide the Moss into Fields of a moderate Size. The whole is surrounded by tall Forest Trees.
This was the lesser of the two dusky Plains, which appeared about the Size of a Handkerchief, and which he wished to decipher, but in vain.
188. Rixton-Moss is situated five Miles North North East of Warrington, and a little to the left of the Turnpike Road leading from thence to Manchester, and 25 from Chester.
189. He has since been informed that the other Plain, about the Size of a moderate Carpet,Chat-Moss in Lancashire. was no less a Place than chat moss, a vast Tract of barren wet Land, many Miles in Extent.
The Rivulet seen when above, was the River Mersey near Warrington.