On that part of the line the country is flat and uninteresting, entirely muskeg or marsh, with the exception of one small rock cutting, where the necessary drainage formed the principal item in the cost of construction.
As yet engineering science offered no solution for the muskeg problem, and this was not the first grade he had seen sacrificed to a theory.
He ain't such a fool as to go an' load a muskeg down with clay and rock.
For, all said, the problem resolved itself into terms of specific gravity--iron sinks and wood floats in water; and the muskeg which swallowed clay would easily carry a sawdust bank.
The last chapter of the fur romance" will not have been written as long as frost and muskeg provide a habitat for furtive game, and strong men set forth to traverse lone places with no defense but their own valiant spirit.
Out of that onemuskeg hundreds of thousands of little pelts have been taken since 1754 when Anthony Hendry, the smuggler, came the first of the fur-traders inland from the Bay.
That muskeg is only one of thousands, when you go seventy miles north of the Saskatchewan, sixty miles east of Athabasca Lake.
North of Cumberland Lake to the next fur post is a trifling run of two hundred and fifty to three hundred miles by dog-train to Lac du Brochet or Reindeer Lake--more muskegcut by limestone and granite ridges.
We should have thwarted the main muskeg by a long narrow channel, but mistook our way thinking to follow the main river by taking the broadest opening.
Here you can measure four hundred miles east or west and not get out of themuskeg till you reach Athabasca on the west and Hudson's Bay on the east.
A muskeg where horses sink through quaking moss to saddle-girths!
The muskeg was permanent wet ground resting on soft mud, covered over on the top with most deceiving soft green moss which looked solid, but which quaked to every step and gave to the slightest weight.
The great Spruce forests and Muskeg lands lying between the Saskatchewan River, the Arctic Ocean, and the Rocky Mountains--being the home of the fur-bearing animals.
For seven years we go on peopling the streets of our Muskeg Cities, growing more plentiful all the time, until there is a great population.
These dams are like the great hard roads you have seen the White Men cut through our country to pull their stupid carts over; I can cross the softest Muskeg on one and my sharp hoofs hardly bury to the fetlock.
In theMuskeg parks, the nice open places Beaver has formed by damming back the waters, we labor.
I'm off to the muskeg to hunt Mice," announced Pisew; "the Famine Year brings one pretty low.
My Cousin's family has three more; and in the Muskeg our streets run clear to view.
A ride of an hour or so, up and down hill, through fallen timber, muskeg and acres of boulders, with finally a most delightful gallop through a piece of virgin timber, brought us unexpectedly out on to a point of land overlooking Maligne Lake.
To cut across the muskeg that stretched for miles would trap him.
Perhaps it was the depressing continuance of the desolate muskeg through which the shadowy figures of startled hares darted that cast the tiring man into foreboding.
Toward evening the trail gradually swung to the east skirting muskeg country.
At first the Wolf took little notice of the angle of detour; he was thankful he followed a trail, for trails never led one into impassable country; the muskegwould run out and the trail swing west again.
You know the muskeg where the creek spreads out, about fourteen miles north?
I'll allow that they've worked through the muskeg and the bluffs pretty thoroughly; but do you know if they've made a good search round Prescott's house?
After saying good-by to Prescott on the night I left the settlement, I went on until I was near the muskeg and had dismounted to camp when a stranger rode up.
The line, when finished, would cross the muskeg with a slight ascent; but the bank sank as they worked at it, and the track now led downhill toward its end.
It followed what was called a cut-out line, which worked round the muskeg and back to the main track through a country too difficult for the latter to traverse; and for a while Prescott's interest was occupied by its progress.
At length two big steel dump cars were sent up from the east and run backward and forward between the muskeg and a distant cutting where they were filled with broken rock.
At Cyril's request he made a rough diagram of the tracks he had discovered in the neighborhood of the muskegand stated his theory of what had happened there.
Figured you were one of those blamed rustlers--the country's full of them--Barton back at the muskeg lost a steer last week.
The laborers' nerves were worn raw, their strength was exhausted; but the muskeg must be filled and, while carload after carload of rock and gravel was hurled down, the line crept on.
Curtis, the policeman, has ridden in to the settlement and told me to go up and search a muskeg near the north trail with Stanton.
Did you ever sleep in a mosquito muskeg or cut hay in a dried-out slough?
The direction in which they were moving was away from the settlement, down towards where the great level flat of the muskeg began.
Like some hungry monster the muskeg mouths its victims with oozing saliva, supping slowly, and seemingly revels in anticipation of the delicate morsel of human flesh.
On their way from the shed to the muskeg Lablache had seen the reflection of the fire at his store in the sky.
We have crossed it," she said, glancing up at the sun, and indicating the muskeg with a backward jerk of her head.
From a general survey his attention soon became riveted upon the muskeg spread out before him, and, before long, his thoughts turned to the secret path which he knew, at some point near by, bridged the silent horror.
Then they dumped in carload after carload of rock and gravel; but the muskeg absorbed it and waited for more.
Just before nightfall he sighted the herd grazing on muskeg moss.
He crossed the muskeg and climbed an ascent into the woods, swinging sharply to the right.
Soon they were deep in its shadows, pushing along the edge of a muskeg which they skirted carefully in order not to be hampered by its treacherous boggy footing.
I'll come back and prospect the muskeg as soon as the frost goes.
As he was a good hunter, we thought this strange, but we went on, because there was another muskeglike the one he spoke of and we might not have understood him.
Even before Clarke had sent them into the muskeg when he knew it was practically impassable, Harding had entertained a deep distrust of him.
The trees were small and sprang from a frozen muskeg so that they could not be uprooted, but the gale had snapped the trunks and laid them low in swaths.
If we were on the dam and missed the turn at the end of it, on to the correction line, we should infallibly go down from the grade, on to muskeg ground, for there was a gap in the dam.
Also had they galloped miles past the muskeg trap, and A'tim dared not take the Bull back; some new plan must be devised for his destruction.
Talking almost incessantly to distract the other's attention, A'tim led the way straight for his muskeg trap.
By and by we reached Muskeg Portage, nearly a mile in length.
Last of all, ask him to have ten men with provisions go to the big pine at Muskeg Point, and wait there till I come.
My mother is getting old; she prefers to travel the forest, and not the muskeg trails.
Without looking behind, he sped in the opposite direction, and laid his course for the big pine at Muskeg Point, two miles away.
Sure there wuz no ground left by raison av the muskeg at the back av it.
The muskeg was beating him, and he hated to be beaten.
For every day they were held back by the muskeg meant a serious reduction in the profits of Maclennan's contract.
This blank, blankmuskeg is knocking the whole contract endways.
The line ran straight through a muskeg out of which the bottom seemed to have dropped, and Maclennan himself, with his foreman, Craigin, was almost in despair.
He bore away to the left, stopping now and again to eat muskeg berries.
Often he stooped and picked pale muskeg berries, put them into his mouth, and chewed and swallowed them.
The muskeg berries did not allay this gnawing, while they made his tongue and the roof of his mouth sore with their irritating bite.
A muskeg berry is a bit of seed enclosed in a bit of water.
It was because it refused to die that he still ate muskeg berries and minnows, drank his hot water, and kept a wary eye on the sick wolf.
He was compelled to pause for frequent rests, when he attacked the muskeg berries and rush-grass patches.
He felt his way through the wet snow to the watery muskeg berries, and went by feel as he pulled up the rush-grass by the roots.
He picked his way from muskeg to muskeg, and followed the other man's footsteps along and across the rocky ledges which thrust like islets through the sea of moss.
There were stony tracts across which they painfully picked their way, steep ridges to be clambered over, and belts of quaggy muskeg they must skirt.
Their clothes were damp and splashed with mud, for they had had to cross a patch of very soft muskeg to gather wood among a clump of rotting spruces.
Indian leading, struck out through the muskeg toward the shadowy hills.
As he was a good hunter, we thought this strange; but we went on, because there was another muskeg like the one he spoke of, and we might not have understood him.
I'll come back and prospect themuskeg as soon as the frost goes," Harding answered promptly.
The Alberta birds are somewhat intermediate; and probably typical griseus, if there is any such thing, will be found breeding somewhere in the muskeg regions of central Canada between Alberta and Hudson Bay.
After leaving the lake we entered a muskeg that extended for miles.
Had not the Sergeant, at the imminent risk of his own life, pulled Jim out of that muskeg at Willow Mere one night?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "muskeg" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
