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1316.  A pile of turf drying for use as fuel at the Atocsaico Ranch, central Peru.  At this altitude (13000 feet) there are no trees and the fuel is mainly dried turf from mucky land--a sort of peat.

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1525.  A remarkable peat farm north of La Paz (about 14000 feet).  The piles are blocks of peat drying for shipment by rail to La Paz and other points for use as fuel.  The peat is said to be 50 feet deep and extend over several square miles.