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Show Spruce Wood 2000 Years Old A piece of wood from a barge or yacht of ancient Rome has recently been identified, by the wood technologists tech-nologists of the United Slates Department De-partment of Agriculture as a species of spruce. Tlie socliiion was re-( re-( covered from Lake Neml, near :toin. This lake, still f,oK for its beauty, was a fashionable resort re-sort of Roman nobles at the time f Caligula, about 40 A. I). It Is ,ssil.le the yacht fragments had icon submerged nearly ,2000 years. |