Peat comes from wetlands (bogs) filled with partly decayed vegetation. The waterlogged conditions and acidity in these bogs prevent vegetation from decaying fully after death. Over thousands of ...

Over the past few centuries, and likely before then, men harvesting peat in European bogs have struck upon remarkable and, to the peat cutters, no doubt frightening discoveries. More than a ...

The best kind is compact, and nearly black ; the inferior kind is light, and of a brown color. The lower strata of deep peat bogs make the best peat, because more compact j and they more nearly ...