(1700) Right Honourable Sir , Peat .After proffering my humble services I take the liberty to tell Your Honour that I have been obliged to go to the land of Flakkee and , travelling home by Hellevoetsluis , I there saw , drying in front of the houses of divers common people , many large and small pieces of peat , which it was said burned all right , but stank rather , and was dug from the soil where the dock was being enlarged .I broke some pieces of this peat apart , although I thought this substance consisted of float - grass and rushes , etc .