Before them lay a grassy boggy slope curling gently upwards between higher rockier slopes.
The ground had become very boggy from a heavy rain that fell during the day.
The cranberries are largely restricted to boggy depressions but did not cooccur in the surveys.
The grass steadily grows more rank, and, in the boggy patches where the drainage system seems to have failed, tussocks and rushes have completely ousted the smooth sward.
I am speaking of wet and boggy land and bracken-covered common land.