232 » BEOLOGICAL CHANGES Of THE 
consequently, if the bed of shells, as has been (,[ 
was deposited in that place by an inundati^^^ 
Thames, it must have been such as to have dro'''®^,^ 
proportion of the surrounding country, and h® pj/[ 
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topped the trees near the river, in West Horroc^’jjj (»; 
ham, and the otlier marshes, overturning them 
gress. In support of this hypothesis, it should be 
rcn’7; 
that the bed of earth in which the trees gtesv,. (/■’ 
and undisturbed, and consisted of a, spongy, ' 
soil, filled with the roots of reeds, of a specie'' ' 
much less than that of the stratum above it. 
The levels of Hatfield Chase were, in 
the 
Charles I. the largest chase of red deer in Englaf ^ 
contained about one hundred and eighty tliousaO j. ,; 
tuiiumicu auuui. imc nuiiuiv-u unu ''■5“V 
land, about one half of which was yearly 
being sold to one Vermuiden, a Dutchman, J 
at a great labour and expcnce, to dischase, ‘‘ 
reduce these lands to arable and pasture grounds-, j ^ir^ 
ject to be overflowed. In every part of the s^^ 
bottom of the river Ouse even. 
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titious soil of all marsh land, together witli 
and in that of 
tlie Lincolnshire Would, vast multitudes of d’® 
trunks of trees of difterent sizes are found. 1*’.® 
as tin 
could have grown ; and near to tliem lie the 
fixed in tire soil, in their natural position, as jl’J 
of these trees appear to have been burned, and 
have been chopped and squared; and this in s' 
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and at such depths, as could never have been “P® 
the destmction of the forest, until the time of f^’® J 
- . . >• 1 n —Ivrt *’ t|l. 
That this was the work of the Romans, wh® 
destroyers of all the woods and forests wbicn 
found underground in die bottoms of moors afl^ jp ^ 
evidenced by the coins and utenals, belong'J’S^p |f*y 
nation, which have been collected, as well in p, 
as in other parts of Great Britain where diese su 
forests have been discovered. 
MOORS, MOSSES, AND BOGS. V 
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It having been reported in Lincolnshire, that a v» 
of fslets of moor, situated along its coast,^ and 
at the lowest ebbs of the tide, was _cluefly 
