muskegn.

1775 Cumberland House Jrnls. 3 Sept. in Publ. Hudson's Bay Rec. Soc. (1951) 14 6 We passed over one Carrying Place of ¼ mile called Muskake or swampy carrying Place, also lead Canoes over two falls.]

1806 A. Henry Jrnl. 8 July (1988) I. 193 We passed through three most abominable ugly Mashquegies in getting over which our horses were nearly knocked up.

1834 H. R. Schoolcraft Narr. Exped. Itasca Lake 124 A large portion of the wide area of its [sc. the Mississippi River's] valley, is traversed by pine ridges, with innumerable intervening lakes, and extensive tracts of, what the natives denominate, mushkeegs.

1865 Visct. Milton & W. B. Cheadle N.-W. Passage by Land 207 Muskegs—or level swamps—the surface of which is covered with a mossy crust five, or six inches in thickness, while a thick growth of pines and the fallen timber add to the difficulties of the road.

1899 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 541/2 A thick forest of tall pines with patches of bad muskeag, or marsh.

1904 M. Roberts Bianca's Caprice 143 Beyond the Prairie lay the muskeg, the barren lands of Northern Canada.

1914 Chambers's Jrnl. May 331/1 Many North American rivers—generally those which flow through comparatively low-lying muskeg forests, contain long stretches of deep, clear water.

1942 Archit. Rev. 91 85 (caption) Fort Prince of Wales, Churchill, Manitoba, was one of the Hudson's Bay Company's forts, built of stone on the frozen Arctic muskeg.

1989 R. Banks Affliction v. 67 Beyond the boulders was a shallow high-country swamp, a muskeg, covered with ice.

2005 B. A. Gow Roughnecks, Rock Bits, & Rigs x. 277 The timber was heavy (spruce, willow, poplar, aspen, pine) with much deadfall and great stretches of muskeg.