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borlase’s account. 
Sucli doductioDs should roiidor us grato- 
ful that no similar wide devastations have 
been permitted in our day; and when we 
reflect on the desolation which a trifling 
alteration in the sea level w^ould produce, 
W’e shall feel anew our entire dependence 
for existence on Him who holdeth the 
Avaters in the hollow of his hand.” 
Nearly a century since the following 
account of a submarine forest was published 
by Dr. Borlase. 
On the strand of Mount’s Bay, midway 
betwixt the piers of St. Michael’s Mount 
and Penzance, on the 10th of January, 
1757 , the remains of the w^ood w^hich accor¬ 
ding to tradition, covered anciently a large 
tract of ground on the edge of Mount’s Bay 
appeared. The sands had been drawn off 
from the shore by a violent sea, and had 
left several places, twenty yards long and 
ten wide, wmshed bare, strewed with stones 
like a broken causeway, and wrought into 
hollows somewhat below the rest of the 
sands. This gave me an opportunity of 
examining the following parts of the an¬ 
cient trees; in the first pool part of the 
