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quantities of their Cones, 8 Canoo's, fuch as the old 5ri- 
tains fail'd in, and in another More was found a Brafs Ket- 
tle, Beads of Amber, a fmall Mill-ftone, the whole head of 
an Hippopotamus ^mA. humane Bodies entire and uncorrupted. 
I fuppofe he means as to outward appearance. 
Many places the Soil of A^glefea and M^;/, as alfo of 
the Boggs q{ Ireland, are likevvife full of Roots and Trees, 
but of what fort indeed, I have, not yet Learn'd : and now 
that I have got into Ireland, pray give me leave to follow 
this fubjedt a little further into other tranfmarine Coun- 
tries, 
Verjieegan tells us, that in many places of the Mores and 
MoralTes of the Netherlands, great Firr-Trees are commonly 
found, with their tops lying to the North Eaft, juft as 
they do in thefe Levels, and Helmont mentions the Fed there, 
a TurfF more of 9 miles broad, 
I have likewife read in fome of the French Naturalifts, I 
think in Monfieur ^rfe la Perr, that Trees and Roots are alfo 
frequently found in the Low Grounds, Levels and Morafles 
of France, Switzerland and Savoy. 
And laftly, the Learned and CmiomRammazzini aflures 
us,' that in the Territories of Modena (which are feveral 
miles long and broad, and at prefent a moft fruitful dry 
Country, tho in the time ot the C<efars, it was nothing but 
a great L^keJ are found at 30, 40, and 50 foot deep, the 
Soil of a low Marfhy Country, full of Sedge, Reeds, Shrubs, 
Roots, Trees, Nuts, Ears of Corn, leaves of Trees, Branches 
and Boughs of Oaks, Elms, Wall-nuts, Afhes, Willows, 
and the very Trees themfelves, fome broke, fome whole, 
fome ftanding upright, fome lying at their length, &c. 
with old Coins of the J^^?^^;/ Emperors, old Marbles and 
' Stones fquared, cut, carved and wrought with the hands 
of Men, (&c. 
But, now Sir, feeing that we find Roots and Trees, with 
other things that are common to thefe Levels, not only 
there, but alfo in other Countries, the thing that yet re- 
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