Others again are light and porous, and remain so on drying; these contain intermixed vegetable matter that is but little advanced in the peaty decomposition.
"Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel"
Samuel William Johnson
Carbonic acid is the most abundant gaseous product of the peaty decomposition.
"Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel"
Samuel William Johnson
With it came the scent of flowers and forests, of fields and peaty smoke from cottage chimneys....
"A Prisoner in Fairyland"
Algernon Blackwood