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floating bog 
or muskeg a layer of muskeg floating on the surface of the water near the shores of a river or lake.
See also: muskeg (def. 3)
- 1946 They got well into some bushes while I, acting as guide, went gingerly out on the floating bog at the lake inlet to look. . . .
- 1961 Floating muskeg surrounded the lake, so we moved onto higher ground and built a corduroy road back down to the lake.
- 1963 . . . the approach to the lake itself .. . was simply a floating bog, so soft that a tussock stepped upon sank a foot or more. . . .
- 1946 They got well into some bushes while I, acting as guide, went gingerly out on the floating bog at the lake inlet to look. . . .