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Peat-mosses and their birds--Moorlands--Cotton-grass--Scotch whisky--Growth of peat-moss--A vegetable pump--Low-lying and moorland mosses--Eruptions and floods of peat--Colonizing by heather and Scotch fir--Peat-mosses as museums--Remains of children and troopers--Irish elk--Story of the plants in Denmark--Rhododendrons and peat--Uses of peat--Reclaiming the mosses near Glasgow 353