Re: McKinley: marsh-magic: rumpelstiltskin, moors, Hampshire

Cameron Lynn <cslynn@mail.wm.edu> wrote:

> also, just a general question not so much about "Marsh-Magic" as about
> marshes - are moors the same as marshes? i thought i read that they were,
> but in the movie version i saw of "wuthering heights" the moors looked
> rocky and covered with scrub-brush, not marshy and boggy...?
 
moor:
1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and
        having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and
        abounding in peat; a heath.

-xx- Damien X-)
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Received on Fri Feb 19 12:34:05 1999