Vegetation of Northern Cape Breton. 



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d. THE ASSOCIATION-COMPLEXES OF RAISED BOGS 



Geographical distribution of raised bogs in eastern North 

 America. — Bogs of the raised {"Hochmoor") type (Figs. 64, 66) 

 are extensively developed in parts of northern Europe, and there 

 are numerous published accounts dealing with them, both from 

 an economic and a biological standpoint. But concerning their 

 occurrence and distribution in North America little is known, 

 and specific references to them in the literature are scarce. 



Figure 64. — Raised bog on Peter's Barren, in the mountains east of 

 Frizzleton ; in the foreground, pond and low, wet bog ; in the background, 

 the more elevated part of the bog, which rises more than twelve feet above 

 the pond level. 



Ganong, more than twenty-five years ago ('91), called attention 

 to the presence in New Brunswick of bogs of this type, and in 

 1898 he pviblished a rather detailed account of the raised bogs in 

 the southern part of this province. He has also made some brief 

 notes ('06^) on the raised bogs of Miscou Island, New Bruns- 

 wick. In his second paper, Ganong indicates the reported 

 occurrence of raised bogs in Nova Scotia and Anticosti, and the 

 probability of their occurrence in Newfoundland. In a recent 



