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DESCRIPTIVE MINERALOGY. 
Kings, Queens and Richmond Counties. Peat is found in various parts of these counties, 
but not in remarkably extensive deposits. The most important localities are near Newtown, 
where it is said to have been dug for fifty years. It is used as fuel, and its ashes has been 
successfully employed as a fertilizer. 
Orange County. This substance is said to exist in great abundance in every town, except 
Deerpark, and the quantity is perfectly inexhaustible. Among the particular localities may 
be enumerated several swamps near Fort Montgomery, one near Crossway mine, and another 
east of Sterling mine. To these may be added the Drowned lands, the Greycourt meadows 
and the Black meadows, which are underlaid with peat. 
Otsego County. A few deposits of peat have been discovered in this county. Among 
these may be mentioned a swamp two miles south of Cooperstown, and several smaller ones 
in the same vicinity. On the road from Cooperstown west towards Oakville, are several 
small deposits.* 
Putnam County. Mr. Mather enumerates several peat bogs which occur in this county. 
One lies near the east side of Mahopack pond ; another, very large, near Patterson ; another 
in Phillipstown, about two miles east-northeast of West-Point; and there is still another near 
Davenport’s corners, five miles northeast of Coldspring.f 
Rockland County. This is no less plentifully supplied with peat than the adjoining county 
(Orange). There is a bog about a mile south of the Long Clove ; another, two miles west of 
Nyack, containing fifty or more acres ; another, of about forty acres, a mile southwest of 
Snediker’s landing. On the mountain near the turnpike from the village of Haverstraw to 
Monroe works, several bogs are found of considerable extent; and besides these, many others 
are said, by Mr. Mather, to exist in this county. 
In Sullivan and Ulster counties, several peat bogs have already been discovered. 
Warren County. There is an important locality of this substance on the farm of Mr. 
Richards, in Warrensburgh. It is said to cover about sixty acres, and to extend to a depth 
of sixty feet. According to Dr. Emmons, several smaller deposits are found in the towns of 
Schroon, Chester, Warrensburgh, Johnsburgh, Queensbury, Lake-Pleasant and Wells, varying 
in extent from one to five acres. 
Westchester County. The meadow east of Verplank is filled with peat to a great depth. 
A quarter of a mile west of Bedford, is a bog of several acres in extent; another occurs on Mr. 
Underhill’s farm, two and a half miles south of Crumpond village; another, of one hundred 
and fifty acres, east of Croton, and about four miles southeast of Somerstown plains.! 
Besides these, there are still other localities, which, however, do not require to be particu¬ 
larly noticed. 
* Vanuxem. New-York Geological Reports , 1840. 
f Matter. New-York Geological Reports , 1839. 
