32 GEOLOGICAL AGE AND FORMATION. 



oak timber, and part cultivated land, have thus been lost 

 from Stipson's Island within the fifty years since he resided 

 there with his father. His opinion is corroborated by Mr. 

 James L. Smith, who has resided on the island for the last 

 thirty-six years, and has lost many acres of good wheat 

 land within that period. Mr. Charles Ludlam, of South 

 Dennisville, pointed out to me places now covered with 

 salt grass which were formerly upland, and covered with 

 trees; he also showed me an island in the marsh, west of 

 the bridge, which he thinks has lost two feet of its eleva- 

 tion above the marsh since his recollection. 



An island in the meadow of Richard Leaming, between 

 Dennisville and Goshen, had living trees upon it seventy 

 years ago. Mr. Albert Peterson sounded the depth of the 

 mud on it this summer, and found it to be four and a half 

 feet. The bottom of this may be muck, but it has a con- 

 siderable depth of marsh mud on top, and high tides run 

 over it. 



Mr. Stephen Hand, on the sea-side, ten miles from Cape 

 Island, showed me places in the borders of his salt-marsh 

 where trees and bushes had grown since he owned the 

 land. Mr. Joshua Townsend, near Townsend's Inlet, on 

 the sea-side, knows, in his own vicinity, several spots where 

 white oak trees grew since his recollection, which are now 

 covered with marsh. Mr. Nicholas Godfrey, two miles 

 below Beesley's Point, has instances on his own land where 

 the timber has been killed out, and salt-marsh taken its 

 place since his recollection. Mr. John Stites, Sen., of Bees- 

 ley's Point, says the advance of the marsh on the upland 

 is unquestioned. Mr. Stephen Young, at the Toll Bridge 



