But for him, and the dams he builds, the Muskegs would soon dry up, the fires would burn the Forests, and we should have no place to live.
Wolverine showed Jay where the snare was placed, and while he cleverly arranged the bacon beyond its quick-slipping noose, the latter scoured the Forests and muskegs for Pisew until he found him.
It has been my steadfast object ever since I became an outcast; I've schemed and cheated to gain it, besides risking my life often in desolate muskegs and the Arctic frost.
With the muskegs frozen solid, it ought to make an easy road.
There is more or less timber on these ridges, and in the so-called muskegs between them.
All this struck a note of refined luxury that was strange to Thirlwell, who had spent some years in the wilds, where the small, frost-bitten pines roll across the rocks and muskegs of North Ontario.
The muskegs are frozen and one can make fast marches along the rivers and across the lakes.
Anyway, there's no muskegs (swamps) hereabouts, and therefore no mosquitoes to speak of.
Both were well accustomed to the muskegs and the timbered lands of Canada, and, if only the truth were known, had before now been engaged in a similar expedition.
Where there's muskegs the trees soon rot, and ef a wind springs up you might have the trunks coming about your ears, to say nothing of rotten branches.
While this was going on we amused ourselves with duck-shooting on some lakes and muskegs a few miles back from the landing, and our bag was always a welcome addition to the table, as no other kind of fresh meat was to be had.
There were few lakes out of the course of the river, but long stretches of flat grassy muskegs extended as far as the eye could see to the west.
It was still winter in the wilds, and though that made Lisle's work a little easier, because rivers and lakes and muskegs were frozen, he found it sufficiently arduous.
It was sprinkled with little ponds, and banded here and there with belts of stunted trees, small birches and willows, and ragged cedars that hid the oozy muskegs under them.
It is not like the trails in our country, sometimes rocks, and then more often muskegs and quaking bogs; but it is the solid rock all the time, and on it we may always be sure of our footing, and it leads us up to Him Who is the Rock of Ages.
It was situated on a surf-beaten coast, with a lonely stretch of barrens and muskegs rolling away behind, and the climate was severe.
We made it with some trouble, and one afternoon came down to the creek, wet and worn out, plowing through belts of melting snow and soft muskegs made by the sudden thaw.
It is in these western valleys that the rainfall is far greater than on the other side of the range, hence the forests are thicker and the muskegs and streams more dangerous.
At that point the forest has already begun to dwindle towards the Land of Little Sticks, so that often miles and miles of open muskegs will intervene between groups of the stunted trees.
It has been my steadfast object ever since I became an outcast; I've schemed and cheated to gain it, besides risking my life often in desolate muskegs and the arctic frost.
I only know that it's remarkably rough country; thick pine bush on rolling ground, with some bad muskegs and small lakes," he said.
They were crossing one of the high steppes of the middle prairie toward the belt of pines and muskegs which divides it from the barrens of the North.
IV If you think there is any danger of settlement ever encroaching on the muskegs and barrens, come with me on a trip of some weeks to the south end of this field.
This is characteristic of the country, muskegs and areas of rich soil alternating in all directions.
In the morning an endless succession of small creeks was passed, screened by deep valleys which fell in from hills and muskegs to the south, and at noon, jaded with slow travel, we reached Athabasca Landing.
The hunters described the inland country as a wilderness of sand-hills, surrounded by quaking-bogs, muskegs and soft meadows.
Andre Marcel, he would trail dose men into de muskegs of Hell.
I wouldn't crawl through any more of those muskegs for a thousand dollars.
The reason these muskegs had been there for so many years was that the moss formed a great sponge and retained the moisture.
Nearly all the muskegsare covered with, or surrounded by, black spruce.
As to the extent of land suitable for cultivation in Peace river country, Mr. McConnell said there are aspen ridges all through that country which may be good, but they are separated by muskegs everywhere, except on the table prairie.
These muskegs could, of course, be easily drained.
These muskegs are from a foot to three feet deep until you strike hardpan.
In fact there is ice in some of those muskegs all the year round, covered with moss.
The black spruce grows usually in muskegs and low places and owing to the coldness of the soil does not grow fast, and is usually small, not usually over six or eight inches in diameter.
The forest will be cleared and the muskegs drained, and as the land becomes drier the frosty conditions will pass away and a good country will result.
The muskegs which cover a considerable proportion of the country back from the river are permanently frozen at less than two feet from the surface.
These muskegs occur with solid ground in between them, and in those places aspens grow, and where those poplars are found the land is nearly always good.
The tamarack is found throughout the region north to the limit of the forest, occurring mainly in muskegswhere it is sometimes the predominating tree.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "muskegs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
