frakengropar. 8. Polar, lacunae. 9. Golar, fossae inundatae. The Mossar,
paludes turfosae, which are of great extent, have but two species: 1.
Torfmossar, called also Mossmyror and Snottermyror, and, 2. Bjornmossar.

The accumulations of stagnant or stagnating water originating in bogs
are distinguished into Trask, stagna, and Tjernar or Tjarnar (sing.
Tjern or Tjarn), stagnatiles. Trask are pools fed by bogs, or water
emanating from them, and their bottoms are slimy; Tjernar are small
Trask situated within the limits of Mossar.--L.L. Laestadius, om
Mojligheten af Uppodlingar i Lappmarken, pp. 23, 24.

Although the quantity of bog land in New England is less than in many
other regions of equal area, yet there is a considerable extent of this
formation in some of the Northeastern States. Dana (Manual of Geology,
p. 614) states that the quantity of peat in Massachusetts is estimated
at 120,000,000 cords, or nearly 569,000,000 cubic yards, but he does not
give either the area or the depth of the deposits. In any event,
however, bogs cover but a small percentage of the territory in any of
the Northern States, while it is said that one tenth of the whole
surface of Ireland is composed of bogs, and there are still extensive
tracts of undrained marsh in England. The amount of this formation in
Great Britain is estimated at 6,000,000 acres, with an average depth of
twelve feet, which would yield 21,600,000 tons of air-dried
peat.--Asbjornsen, Tore og Torodrift, Christiania, 1868, p. 6. Peat beds
have sometimes a thickness of ten or twelve yards, or even more. A depth
of ten yards would give 48,000 cubic yards to the acre. The greatest
quantity of firewood yielded by the forests of New England to the acre
is 100 cords solid measure, or 474 cubic yards; but this comprises only
the trunks and larger branches. If we add the small branches and twigs,
it is possible that 600 cubic yards might, in some cases, be cut on an