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thither from the rocks of Lammermoor hills by the agency of a current of water setting in from the North towards the South; and as the Kaims are composed of similar materials reduced to a moderate size, its formation is to be ascribed to the same cause. It is generally allowed that mosses are produced from decayed vegetable matter such as wood, furze, ferns &c. Now, if it be admitted that Dogden Moss was at one time an extensive wood, the waters subsiding at the universal deluge, or some more partial inundation, & rushing with great impetuosity from the Dirrington Laws, which are about two miles N. West from the Kaimes, would carry with them all the wood & underwood, to a considerable distance, till the collected materials would form