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Show CURIOSITIES OP EARTH. At the city of Medina, in Italy, and about four miles around it, wherever the earth is dug, when the workmen arrive at a distance of 63 feet, they come to a bed of chalk, which they bore with an auger, 5 feet deep. They then withdraw from the pit before the auger is removed, and upon up-on its extraction the water bursts up through the aperture with great violence, and quickly fills the newly made well, which continues full and is affected neither neith-er by raina nor drought. But what is the most remarkable in this operation is the layers of earth as we decend. At the depth of 14 feet are found the ruins of an ancient city, paved streets, houses, floors, and different pieces of mason work. Under Un-der this is found a soft, oozy earth, made up of vegetable matter and at 26 feet large trees en tire, such as walnut trees, with the " walnuts still sticking to the stem, and the leaves and branches in a perfect state of preservation. At 28 feet deep a soft chalk is found, mixed with a vast quantity of shells, and the bed is 11 feet thick. Under this vegetables are found again. Ex. |