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Show Peat Bogs of Ireland. Ireland possesses 25,000,000 acres of peat bog one-seventh the total area of the island. Much of this peat is concentrated in the center of the country, coun-try, in the Bog of Allen, but there are also large tracts in other localities. To utilize this peat, not merely for domestic use, but also for power purposes, pur-poses, Is a problem which has exercised exer-cised the minds of prominent Irishmen for many years, and the department of scientific and industrial research appointed a committee, with Sir John Griffiths of Dublin as chairman to investigate in-vestigate the whole, question. Some successful attempts have already been made in Ireland to deal with the substance sub-stance on a commercial basis, but any efforts to utilize the deposits must always al-ways have regard to three circumstances circum-stances that peat contains and retains re-tains a large amount of water ; that, compared with other fuels, it has a low calorific value, and that it is extremely ex-tremely bulky, involving a high cost of carriage. |