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and the olive were buried in almost the whole of the 

 mouth of the red sea ; and which, during the ebb, were 

 sometimes exposed and from the flowing in of the tide, 

 were torn up."* This he observes is very astonishing ; 

 since even higher up in the country no trees are to be 

 found. 



Eratosthenes relates the same circumstance as ob- 

 servable in the Persian sea.f 



De Boot remarks, that " near Bruges, in Flanders, 

 upon digging to the depth of 30 feet, whole forests 

 wore found ; the leaves and the trunks being so little 

 altered, that the different species of the trees which 

 had fallen yearly, might also be distinguished. "J 



Buffo n relates, on the authority of Rommazini, that 

 for four miles round the town of Modena, on digging 

 to the depth of twenty six feet, entire trees, as filberts 

 with nuts upon them, and great quantities of branches 

 and leaves are found, and at the depth of forty nine 

 feet they came upon a second stratum of fossil wood 

 and leaves, extending to the depth of sixty feet or more. 

 This last or lowest stratum is probably the lowermost 

 deposite of vegetable matter, and corresponds, not only 

 with the preceding case, related by De Boot, but with 

 numerous others of a similar kind that occur in Ame- 

 rica. 



Dr. Plott remarks, that at Wattington Park in Ox- 

 fordshire, at the bottom of a pond, were found some 



* Strabon Geography, lib. 16. 



t Vide Parkinson's Or^anick Remains, vol. 1, p. 53. 



\ Vide Parkinson, vol. 1, .p. 55. 





