Peat is a nonrenewable resource because it is being consumed much faster than it can be produced; a bog regrows at a rate of ...

Peat is employed for fuel in the greater part ... The substance is soft when found in the bog, and is easily cut, with a long narrow spade, into pieces resembling bricks ; these, when exposed ...

Her long fair hair was preserved in the peat, but on half of her head it had been cut off. Other bog bodies also had their hair cut when they were killed. They were long called the "Weerdinge ...

The ridge in question should properly be called ‘Peat Slip Ridge’ if we were to call it anything. Early settlers in Stanley cut their annual supply of peat at the ridge, because at the time ...