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tons of oak, and a pit being sunk fifty or sixty feet 

 deep, many whole oaks were found, one of which was 

 upright, and one also perpendicular, but inverted.* 



In Dr. Richardson's account of the fossil trees at 

 Youle, in Yorkshire, it is said, that some of them are 

 one hundred feet in length, and their tops all lie in one 

 direction. 



Similar remarks are made of the subterraneous trees 

 of Hatfield Chase, by M. De la Pryme : " Infinite 

 millions of trees and roots are found under the space of 

 one hundred and eighty thousand acres of land, the 

 tops of which trees commonly lay north east."f 



Subterranean forests have been described, by va- 

 rious writers, as being found in numerous instances in 

 different parts of the world. The Rev. W. JBorlase 

 has given an account of subterranean trees found on 

 the shores of Mounts bay, Cornwall. 



Another is mentioned as extending under the sea on 

 the coast of Lancaster, between Liverpool and Pres- 

 ton, ( England.)} 



Another at Sutton in Lincolnshire, (England. ) 



M. Jlutenreuth has discovered, near Canstadt, a sub- 

 terranean forest of Palms, many of which, are two 

 feet in diameter. Tf 



Mr. Rennell observes, that " when the great reser- 

 voir was dug in the city of Calcutta, whole trees were 



* Dr. Plott, page 161., 



f Vide Parkinson's Organick Remains, Vol. I page 65. 



t See Bake well's Introduction to Geology, page 260. 



Oiganick Remains, vol. I. page 71 ^ Vol. 3, p. 429. 



