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aqiiaticus maocimus; and had any flowers 
appeared, they would have pointed out the 
season of the year when all these vegetables 
were interred, but I could find none. 
The place where I found these trees 
was three hundred yards below full-sea 
mark; the water is twelve feet deep upon 
them when the tide is in.”* 
On the north coast of Cornwall w e were 
surprised to perceive that the rough ground 
sea had laid bare an area usually concealed 
by the sand, but now covered with a black 
peaty substance which on inspection proved 
to be the branches, trunks, and roots of 
forest trees. The latter by the manner in 
which they w^ere inserted in the soil shewing 
that their home had been there. It was in 
* a small sandy bay, no tree can struggle into 
vigorous life within half a mile of the bleak 
cliffs at present, and yet here had once been 
a thick wood. The substance of the tim¬ 
ber shewed the same structure as the 
ordinary indigenous wood of the country. 
Bones of the stag and of horned cattle were 
* Borlase’s Natural History of Cornwall, folio, p. 221. 
