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Subject: Re: I'm such an idiot!
Author: Daividh   (guest, 209.209.149.16)
Date: June 19, 2002 at 10:27:48 PM
Reply to: I'm such an idiot! by Tinkerbell
It's a marshy or boggy piece of land. Norfolk and Lincolnshire (eastern England) were full of 'em until some eejits in the early 1700's figured out how to systematically use ditches and crude pumps to drain the fens for farming.

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