Wynne — On Submerged Peat Mosses and Trees. 503 



account for the supposed submergence of peat mosses, with forest 

 trees, in all cases in inland lakes of the West of Ireland ; but the 

 explanation seems to be capable of affording a satisfactory solution 

 of the question regarding Lough Arrow and the Sligo river, 

 without making any unnecessary overdrafts upon possibilities as 

 to local or considerable earth movements at very recent periods, 

 and even though it may deprive the subject of a certain halo of 

 mystery — if I may be allowed to adapt to this subject the well- 

 known lines of our national Bard — it would supply some answer 

 to an inquiry frequently made : 



" When on these waters the fisherman strays, 

 Or becalmed in his boat reclining, 

 He sees the old forests of other days 

 In the -wave beneath him shining.'' 



