ANCIENT FOEESTS OF EUROPE. 29 



In Denmark, once the horrid forest, now a land where 

 ancient forests exist no more, buried remains of ancient 

 forests have been found in such abundance, and so pre7 

 served, and in such succession of superposition, that they 

 have commanded the attention of some of the first 

 archaeologists of the age ; and these have been able to fur- 

 nish us with the details of the order in which different kinds 

 of trees have in succession existed there, — and to carry 

 back our\study of prehistoric forests to the times in ■which 

 were formed some of the Kjokken-moddings of Scandinavia 

 — times so remote that though archfeologists speak of 

 them as of eras of unquestionable antiquity, the recital 

 would seem to some to be but the creation of a dis- 

 ordered fancy. 



