In order behind the floating bog come the advanced plants of the conifer group, with sphagnum and low shrub here upon a peat base extending to the lake bottom.
Next behind the water lilies come the sedges, which form a mat of floating bogby their grasslike stems sinking down in the water and being there interwoven with the rhizomes below.
To the right in the foreground is a peat bog (after Munthe).
This bed of peat appears to grow upward toward the surface and become joined to the shore end of the floating bog by decaying vegetation which is dropped from the bottom of the mat above.
View of the floating bog and surrounding zones of vegetation in a small glacial lake of the Yellowstone National Park (after a photograph by Fairbanks).
All the wild and turfy growth should be taken off the bogbefore the vines are set.
The ordinary practice is to choose a bog which has a creek running through it, or through which some creek or ditch may be diverted.
At the lower side of the bog flood-gates are provided, so that when the gates are shut, the water backs up and floods the area.
Han havde imidlertid travlt alligevel, var stærkt interesseret i Trykningen af Berners Bog og gjorde flere Afstikkere fra Byen uden at have Bøsse med.
You’d sooner sink in the bog than clutch a dirty rope and be saved!
Being all assembled at the bottom of the glen, they found that a long and dangerous bog or swamp filled with putrid water, and the decayed remains of vegetable substances intersected their path, and must necessarily be crossed.
So he tried to jump from the bridge over a bog hole on to a tuft that he might not dirty his bright shoes.
Now he took another way than the one he went before; but just as he leaped and jumped, he got upon the bridge over the moor again, and from it he had to jump over a bog hole on to a turf that he might not soil his shoes.
To crown all, we had just heard that the Dandy was delayed in a bog with a broken shaft, but he eventually arrived in time to save the situation, but not before we were quite out of tea.
They turned piteous terrified eyes on us as we rode up, and then Dan and the Maluka firing in mercy, the poor heads drooped and fell and the bog with a sickening sigh sucked them under.
But, as at other places, the deeper the cutting the more rapid was the flow of fluid bog into the drain, the bottom rising up almost as fast as it was removed.
Chat Moss is an immense peat bog of about twelve square miles in extent.
The greatest difficulty was, however, experienced in forming an embankment upon the edge of the bog at the Manchester end.
The resident engineer was sorely puzzled in the outset by the problem of constructing a road for heavy locomotives, with trains of passengers and goods, upon a bogwhich he had found incapable of supporting his own weight!
It was only in some of the drier parts of the bog that a depth of three or four feet could be reached.
Unlike the bogs or swamps of Cambridge and Lincolnshire, which consist principally of soft mud or silt, this bog is a vast mass of spongy vegetable pulp, the result of the growth and decay of ages.
