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timate. The aggregate amount of peat in this township is probably 
400,000 cords. 
Mr. Waite has used the peat of his bog as a manure on his land suc- 
cessfully. 
Mr. Otis C. Bowman, of Lafayette Corners, informed me that peat 
occurs on Rowland Story's farm, a quarter of a mile east of that village, 
in Milan. The marsh probably contains 1,000 cords. 
A bog of peat, five or six acres, with a depth of five or six feet, oc- 
curs one and a half miles east of Upper Red Hook, and probably con- 
tains 5,000 cords. 
A peat bog between Storm ville and Hopewell, which was not mi- 
nutely examined, is supposed to contain 6,000 cords. 
Several bogs between Hopewell and Fishkill appeared to be peat 
bogs. They were not examined. They contain probably an aggregate 
surface of 40 acres and 40,000 cords. 
A peat bog of 5 or six acres is located about a mile and half from 
Storm ville, on the road to Beekman, and contains probably 6,000 cords. 
An extensive peat bog extends north from Long pond down the val- 
ley of its outlet, and probably contains 300,000 cords, 
Mr. Davenport, who accompanied me to several localities, which he 
had discovered near Hudson, informed me of a bog S. W. of Becraft's 
mountain, and w^hich probably contains 5,000 cords. 
Mr. Staats, of Hudson, informed me of a large body of peat on To- 
bias Legget's farm, in Ghent, which may contain 10,000 cords. 
Peat probably exists in the marsh east of Great Nutten Hook. 
Jesse Van Ness, Esq. of Maiden, informed me of a bog, which con- 
tains peat and marl, a mile or two west of Maiden, and it may contain 
40,000 cords. 
On Mr. Samuel Croker's farm, in Kinderhook, is a meadow of 20 
acres or more. The peat is shallow (two to four feet) and of inferior 
quality. Mr. C. has brought it into cultivation by ditching and drain- 
ing it. Good grass is now raised on a soil that only a few years since 
was considered worthless. 
Two or three small peat bogs were seen in Ghent, in passing through 
the south part of the town. They may contain 10 to 15 acres, and 
perhaps 10,000 cords. 
A small marsh of ligneous peat w^as seen about one and a half miles 
north of Hillsdale. 
There is an extensive peat bog on Lawrence Smith's and the adjoin- 
