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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Heman Glass, has been used for making a compost. This de- 

 posit extended to the south under the property of W. H. Robinson. 

 In the dry season of 1892 or 1898, this portion took fire and 

 smoldered for a week or more, finally burning itself out. At 

 several points the overlying loam sank in. forming shallow pits. 



There is a deposit of peat (16) 2y 2 miles east of Penfield vil- 

 lage, on the Commission ditch. About 40 years ago, while the 

 New York Central Railroad Co. was still burning wood in its 

 engines, it was planned to organize a company for the purpose 

 of supplying the railroad with peat from this bed, as a fuel. 

 Samples for testing were taken from various points in the de- 

 posit. But the price of coal fell at this time; so the company 

 decided to have its engines equipped for burning coal. 



A small, boglike area in Rochester, on the present site of the 

 Rochester Atheneum and Mechanics Institute, showed the fol- 

 lowing arrangement of material : a layer of clay, a layer of shell 

 marl and a shallow layer of sphagnum peat followed by a layer 

 of filling. 



