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But wherever a tree falls, there a luxuriant growth of moss succeeds: a little peat-bed forms itself underneath: generations after generations of mosses and watery plants succeed one another; and in time the prostrate trunk is entirely buried under a bright-green bed, soft as down, but treacherous to the foot as a quicksand.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

Prof. Marsh informs the writer that he has seen in Ireland, near the north-west coast, a granite hill, capped with a peat-bed, several feet in thickness.

Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel 1869

Copious springs of this kind occur at the edge of a peat-bed at

Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel 1869

Again, when a stream flows through a peat-bed, soluble matters are carried away by the water, which is often dark-brown from the substances dissolved in it.

Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel 1869

The discovery of a quantity of hydrocarbon jelly, recently, in a peat-bed at Scranton, Pa., has caused some wonder, but similar substances (Dopplerite, etc.) have been met with in the peat-beds of other countries; and while the history of the formation of this singular group of hydrocarbons is not yet well understood, and offers an interesting subject for future research, we have reason to believe that these jellies have been of common occurrence among the evolved products of the decomposition of vegetable tissue in all ages.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Various