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ant growth of a few years, half of which 

 were tottering over our heads. Breathless 

 silence had here taken her reign amid un- 

 healthy fogs, and nothing was heard but 

 the fearful crash of fome mouldering branch 

 or towering beach. It was almost a dead 

 level, and tlie holes dug for the purpofe of 

 manure, out of which a few bones had been 

 taken six or seven years before, were full of 

 water, and connected with others containing 

 a vast quantity -, so that to empty one was to 

 empty them all -, yet a last effort might be 

 crowned with sticcess -, and, since so many dif- 

 ficulties had been conquered, it was refolved 

 to embrace the only opportunity that now of- 

 fered for any farther discovery. Machinery 

 was accordingly erected, pum.ps and buckets 

 were employed, and a long course of troughs 

 conducted the water, among the distant roots, 

 to a fall of a few inches ; by which the men 

 were enabled, unmolested, except by the caving 

 in of the banks, to dig on every fide from the 

 spot where the first discovery of the bones 

 had been made. 



Here alternate success and dissapointment 



