Drowned on the moss. From the 1814 census of the peat cutters on Drip Moss, Kincardineshire “…John, aged 1&1/2, killed by a cart… Donald, 14, killed by a horse… Elizabeth, 16, drowned.”

Drowned on the Lewis moor. In 1872 three year old John MacDonald unbeknownst to his mother followed her out to the peats on the moor, lost his way and drowned in Loch na Caor.

Land/Water. Cundall and Iolaire drowning memorials, Lewis.

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Water/land: Creel lighthouse at ‘The Enchanted Forest: Edge of the Water’, Faskally Wood, Pitlochry.

 

 

Peatland Water lilies.

 

https://www.mandsenergyfund.com/projects/taigh-dhonnchaidh

 

Water/land.

(Un)see. The Lewis breed of pony is now extinct.

William Shiels, ‘West Highland Ponies.’ Eriskay, Mull, and Uist ponies. National Museum of Rural Life, East Kilbride.

See.

Hear the boastful crows ‘crouse’ as the autumn evening’s mist closes in- Bankhead Moss, Fife.