PRELIMINARY REPORT ON PEAT. 
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The swamp of this type which was examined most thoroughly 
(about 5 miles W. N. W. of Tallahassee) covers about 200 acres, 
and the peat is at least six feet deep in the middle, but full of logs, 
Fig. 19.—Interior of gum swamp about 5 miles W.N-W- of 
Tallahassee, Leon County. Trees mostly Nyssa biflora (black 
gum, leafless at this time), with a few small specimens of Mag¬ 
nolia glauca (bay). Feb. 27, 1909. (Locality No. 2). 
as seems to be the case in nearly all our seepage swamps. Analyses 
of this peat will be found under locality No. 2. 
