Suggestions as to the History of a Sunken Ship 



In parts of the sea near the shore, where the accu- 

 mulation of sediment is rapid. Of the two ships 

 upon the bottom, that in the foreground must have 

 come to rest centuries before the other. 



However deep the sea, it is but 

 a few hours before the body of a 

 man Avho finds his ofrave in the ocean 

 is at rest upon the bottom ; it there 

 receives the same swift service from 

 the agents which, in the order of 

 nature, are appointed to care ior the 

 dead, as comes to those who are rev- 

 erently inhumed in blessed ground. 

 All save the hardest parts of the 

 skeleton are quickly taken again 

 into the realm of the living, and 

 even those more resisting por- 

 tions of the body, in time are, 

 in large part, appropriated by 



