DCHP-3

muskeg swamp

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

an organic bog which is a brown to black mixture of water and living and dead vegetation often covered with a carpet of sphagnum or other mosses and often of considerable depth.

See: muskeg(def. 1)

Quotations

1895
Now for the first time we made the acquaintance of the muskeg swamp, and from this time forward hardly a day passed to the end of the journey when we did not curse this particular abomination.
1897
They and the other Indians agree that the whole country on the James Bay slope, after leaving the height of land a short distance, is timbered, except a narrow belt of muskeg swamps some distance below the Long Portage Falls on the Missanabie.
1928
Canada's boom cut its swath across two-thirds of a continent, overflowing into the mountain valleys of the Rockies and the muskeg swamps of the Athabaska.
<i>c</i>1963
The hauling roads, many of which are muskeg swamps during the summer months, become frozen in late fall and are immediately prepared for the winter haul. The main, all-weather roads are built to meet logging operation standards only.
2n.

terrain made up of or characterized by such bogs.

See: muskeg(def. 2)

Quotations

1957
As we left the railroad village of Ilford, the coniferous forests of Northern Manitoba gradually disappeared and the land began to take on a barren look--low scrub, muskeg swamp and rounded weatherworn rock.
1958
I took the trail with him on that wild trip . . . through such a country as you never saw of mountains, streams and miry muskeg swamp. . . .