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be rotted off about two or three feet above the spread 

 of their roots ; their trunks, limbs, &c. lie in all direc- 

 tions about them. But when those swampy forests 

 were growing, and by what cause they were cut off, 

 and overwhelmed by the various strata of earth, which 

 now rise near one hundred feet above, at the bank of 

 the cliffs, and two or three times that height but a few 

 hundred yards back, are inquiries perhaps not easily 

 answered."* 



* Bartram's Travels, page 433. 



