sphagnous

Updated: May 17, 2025

A second little pond in a marsh on a high plateau, at the foot of Mount Redfield, was also discovered, "margined and embanked with luxuriant and deep sphagnous moss," which was named by the party Moss Lake. It was found to flow into the Hudson.

Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop - Voyage of the Paper Canoe; a geographical journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the years 1874-5

This inclosure, however, was filled with a dense peaty mass not reduced to mold, the result of centuries of sphagnous growth, which had reached a thickness of nearly 2 feet above the remains. When we reflect upon the well-known slowness of this kind of growth in these northern regions, attested by numerous Arctic travelers, the antiquity of the remains becomes evident."

H. C. (Harry Crécy) Yarrow - An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians