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SKETCHES OF CREATION. 



Fig. 87. &quot;Mining&quot; Cedar Logs in an ancient Buried bwamp on the coast of 

 New Jersey. 



that the number of annual rings in the trunk of one of 

 these buried trees six feet in diameter was one thousand 

 and eighty, while beneath it was another trunk counting 

 five hundred rings, which had evidently grown and fallen 



