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FOKRiaV BODY IS^ A BEKCH THEE. 



mihs, wa? not so mluutc as I coulJ have wished, on account of my lack of 

 sufficient time. 



[n fine, this is a shore I would recommend to a young geologist, who is 

 anxious to learn more of the science than can be gained from books or cabinets, 

 as the disposition of the various stratified formations, their relations to each 

 other, and to the subjacent and superincumbent igneous rocks, altogether form 

 an excellent school for the first labours of the practical geologist. The 

 beginner will learn more here, with a slight theoretical knowledge of the 

 science, in two weeks, than he could learn in two months from books; here 

 he will learn to observe, and apply his observations. 



FOREIGN BODY FOUND IN 

 THE TRUNK OF A BEECH TREE, (FAGUS SYLVATICA.) 



BY C. W. ROTHERY, ESQ. 



About two years ago a Beech tree was blown down in front of my house, 

 which I sent to the saw- mill to be ciit into planks. The workmen did 

 not proceed far when they found that some body in the wood was causing 

 an obstruction to their labour; and after an eifort to overcome it, found, on 

 completing the section, that they had actually cut through a piece of iron, 

 having all the appearance of a nail. I had it brought home and examined; 

 and by carefully removing the dark-coloured rotten mass of woody fibre which 

 surrounded it, succeeded in withdrawing an old gimblet, one-half of the handle 

 of which had been cut off in the operation of sawing, and the iron considerably 

 filed at one place. 



The part of the trunk where this object was found was about two feet 



