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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    a manure, as to convince the most obstinate, that these, in general, hitherto useless and neglected wastes, which constitute a great proportion of the surface of Great Britain and Ireland, are worthy of cultivation, and afford room for a New Essay on the means of promoting their culture. Whether the diligence of my investiga¬ tion, added to some experience of my own, has been equal to the task of’ elucidating the nature and qualities of Peat-moss in any de¬ gree better than hath been formerly done, so as to open a way for their improvement, 1 leave others to judge, I can, however, safely affirm, that this publication is made with no other hope than that I may be of some service to mankind. The Appendix has become in many par¬ ticulars more copious than even the body of this History; and, in some instances, 1 have