Show corpses preserved in peat peat possesses wonderful antiseptic and preservative quaff qualities ties owing to the presence ot of tannin iron and other sub stances in it here Is an instance at 1 the time of the covenant ers in 1685 three men were shot at a place caled on the moors above old cumnock in scotland in 1825 when a monument was being erected to their memory the workmen came ulon ui on the corpses rolled in their plaids the bodies were in exactly the same state as when they were buried the moss had preserved them as it if they had been embalmed |