peatlike

Updated: May 8, 2025

I was well out on Rannoch before the day was full awake on the country, walking at great trouble upon the coarse barren soil, among rotten bog-grass, lichened stones, and fir-roots that thrust from the black peatlike skeletons of antiquity.

Neil Munro - John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn