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quantity from the bulk of the hme — gives the cost, two dollars and fif- 
ty-eight cents, delivered, or one dollar and fifty-eight cents per cord, at 
the peat bog. 
(Signed.) SAMUEL KEEP." 
The importance of peat lands, and their value for fuel and manure, 
has been urged in the preceding reports on the Geological Survey. The 
results obtained by practical men, by an application of those principles, 
will, it is hoped, lead many of our farmers to avail themselves of the 
bountiful provision of nature for the benefit of their lands. The value 
of peat bogs may be stated in a few words. 
1. Peat is equal in value to oak wood, bulk for bulk. 
2. Peat lands are more productive by far, than uplands. 
3. Peat manure is more valuable than stable manure. 
Bog Iron Ore, 
This ore has been found in numerous places, but few localities pro- 
mise to be of any economical importance. 
In Sullivan county, shot ore was observed, but not abundantly, be- 
tween Monticello and Forestburgh ; also, shot and solid bog ore, on Mr. 
Hamilton's farm, 2\ miles southwest of Monticello. At both these lo- 
calities, the ore contained black oxide of manganese, sufficient to give it 
a black colour. 
Bog ore occurs on the flats at Deposit, on the Delaware, but as it 
was in Broome county, and out of the boundaries of my district, I did 
not visit the locality. 
A bed of iron ore was examined near the Delaware, in the township 
of Tompkins, 4 miles above Cannonsville, Delaware county, on land 
owned by Mr. Maples, and by a widow lady, whose name is not re- 
membered. Judging from the surface hidications, there may be some 
hundred, perhaps some thousand tons. 
Near the village of Delhi, Delaware county, bog ore was observed 
in some quantity, on the lands of Mr. Titus and Mr. Sherwood. It 
was discovered by Mr. James Foote, a young man, who has explored 
the country around with much care. He reported it to be two feet or 
more thick, and it was seen in so many places in the meadows, as to 
induce the belief that a stratum of bog iron ore underlies the soil of the 
flats and mill pond over many acres. 
