The Surface, At A Distance, Looks Black And Dirty, And Is Indeed Frightful To Think Of, For It Will Bear Neither Horse Or Man, Unless In An Exceeding Dry Season, And Then Not So As To Be Passable, Or That Any One Should Travel Over Them What Nature Meant By Such A Useless Production, 'tis Hard To Imagine But The Land Is Entirely Waste, Except For The Poor Cottagers Fuel, And The Quantity Used For That Is Very Small{{cite Web Last
Defoe first = Daniel title = A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London, 1927) work = Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland publisher = Great Britain Historical GIS Project
The Beginning Of The 19th Century Saw The First Attempt At The Reclamation Of Chat Moss In 1793,
"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/William_Roscoe" class="copylinks">William Roscoe had begun work on reclaiming the much smaller Trafford Moss, now part of Trafford Park By 1798 that work was sufficiently advanced for Roscoe to enter into a lease of Chat Moss with the Trafford family, but for various reasons no reclamation work was carried out until 1805{{cite book first = Robert last = Nicholls author-link =
