peat-swamps

Updated: July 19, 2025

The salt sea-water came up the Hudson ninety miles, when ordinarily it scarcely comes forty. Toward the last, the capacity of the atmosphere to absorb and dissipate the smoke was exhausted, and innumerable fires in forests and peat-swamps made the days and the weeks not blue, but a dirty yellowish white.

John Burroughs - Locusts and Wild Honey