CHAP. XXXV.] MOVERS MIGRATING WESTWARD. 205 



from the neighboring mill, we dug out the earth from round one 

 of the buried trees, and exposed a trunk four feet eight inches 

 high, from the bottom of which the roots were seen spreading 

 out as in their natural position. There were two other fossil 

 trees near it, both apparently belonging to the same species of 

 SigiUaria. The bark, converted into coal, displayed the scars 

 left by the attachment of the leaves, but no internal structure 

 was preserved in the mud, now forming a cylindrical mass within 

 the bark. The diameter of the three trunks was from 18 inches 

 to two feet, and their roots were interlaced. A great number of 

 others, found in like manner in an erect posture, have been removed 

 in working the same quarry. The fossil plants obtained here and 

 in other parts of the Indiana coal-field, are singularly like those 

 in other carboniferous strata in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nova Scotia, 

 and Europe. Among them occur species of ferns of the genera 

 Pecopteris and Cydopteris, and three plants, Neuropteris flexu- 

 osa, N. cordata, and Lcpidodendron obovatum, all European 

 species, and common to the Alleghanies and Nova Scotia. 



The three large fossil trees above described as newly exposed 

 to view, were standing erect under the spreading roots of one 

 living oak, and it is wonderful to reflect on the myriads of ages 

 which have intervened between the period when the ancient 

 plants last saw the light, and the era of this modern forest, the 

 vegetation of which would scarcely afford, except in the case of 

 the ferns, any generic resemblance, yet where the trees are similar 

 in stature, upright attitude, and the general form of their roots. 



As we approached Evansville, we passed a German farm, 

 where horses were employed to tread out the maize, and another 

 where vines were cultivated on the side of a hill. At one turn 

 of the road, in the midst of the wood, we met a man with a rifle, 

 carrying in his hand an empty pail for giving water to his horse, 

 and followed at a short distance by his wife, leading a steed, on 

 which was a small sack. &quot; It probably contains,&quot; said our com 

 panions, &quot; all their worldly goods ; they are movers, and have 

 their faces turned westward, a small detachment of that great 

 army of emigrants, which is steadily moving on every year toward 

 the Pvocky Mountains. This young married couple may perhaps 



