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row 



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- nteenth 

 ^ofth 



iP "t wliicli 



' that it is 



' of buried 



Im in most 



t 



«+andiiig 

 It no doubt 



jwnon 



tie 



r. the oak. 



..mains 



of 



ubstratuffl 

 le of ^'^ 



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Ch. xliv.] blown sand, and volcanic ejections. 



tionally smaller in those wliicli lie at hig-lier lev 



499 



wliicli fact De Luc 



from 



Walke 



trees grew on the spot, for thej would naturally attain 



a 



•mer 



levels. The leaves, also, 

 and fruits of each species, are continually found immersed 

 in the moss along with the parent trees ; as, for example, 

 the leaves and acorns of the oak, the cones and leaves of the 

 fir, and the nuts of the hazel. 

 Supposed recent origin 



/ 



In Hatfield 



moss, in Yorkshire, which appears clearly to have been a 

 forest eighteen hundred years ago, fir-trees have been found 



masts 



also been discovered there above 100 feet lono-. 



dimen 



om this moss 



No 



which, must 



dominions 



fc» 



in the same moss of Hatfield, as well as in that of Kin- 

 cardine, in Scotland, and several others, Eoman roads are 

 said to have been found covered to the depth of eight feet 

 by peat, and it has also been affirmed that all the coins 

 axes, arms, and other utensils found in British and French 

 mosses, are Eoman. But the more careful examinations 

 made of late years of the deposits of peat about 30 feet thick 

 at Amiens, Abbeville, and other places in the valley of the 

 Somme, lead me to distrust the inferences formerly drawn as 

 to the age of a large portion of the European peat, which 

 has been supposed to be of later date than the 

 Julius Csesar. M. Boucher de Perthes has ascertai 



Gallo-Roman remains oppnr n,+, Al-.V>o-rr,Mi^ :„ , 



time of 



Stone Period. 



more 



called Celts of the 



same antiquary also remarks 



depth at which Eoman works of art 



always 

 swamp 



a 



sure test of age, because in 



are met 



some 



that heavy substances 



may 



may 



demonstrated 

 e -Eoman and 



^ith, is not 

 arts of the 

 en so fluid 

 Eecent re- 

 t no small 



* See ' Antiquity of Man,' p. no. 



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