The natural and agricultural history of peat-moss or turf-bog. To which are annexed corroborative writings, correspondence and observations... / by Andrew Steele.

  • Steele, Andrew
Date:
1826
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Credit: The natural and agricultural history of peat-moss or turf-bog. To which are annexed corroborative writings, correspondence and observations... / by Andrew Steele. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The experimental knowledge necessary for writing a History, Natural and Agricultural, of Peat-Moss, is yet in its infancy. We have no ancient authors on the subject; and no modern continental author that hath writ¬ ten professedly and fully on its improvement, has come to my knowledge. Former writers of this country have, I think, been defective in some particulars, from the want of a suf¬ ficient number of facts. And, at any rate, the late experience, and the Reports of the Agricultural Surveys of Great Britain and Ireland, have thrown so much new light on the importance of moss-soil, and its uses as
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