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In the 1980s, the paths in many places were impossible to use, such was the scale of the erosion and bogginess, she added.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2022

They are nearly as level as the lakes whose places they have taken, and present a dry, even surface free from rock-heaps, mossy bogginess, and the frowsy roughness of rank, coarse-leaved, weedy, and shrubby vegetation.

From The Mountains of California by Muir, John

We kept him in sight for some way, then we found our further progress somewhat impeded by the bogginess of the ground.

From A Voyage round the World A book for boys by Kingston, William Henry Giles

The bogginess and ruggedness of our route, for the remainder of the day, sufficiently tried our strength: we accomplished however thirteen miles, and halted in a small valley about four miles south of Whitwell Hill.

From Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales by Oxley, John