Show BURIED forests Fo rests nESTS extensive forests covering fing valleys and hills sides are overturned arned and the uprooted trees form a gigantic barrer barner vi which prevents the flowing off of the waters an extensive marsh is formed particularly well adapted for the growth of various various kinds und s of mosses As they perish they are succeeded by ot others kotlers lers and so for generations in unceasing life ilfe and labor until in the course of time the bottom under the he influence of decay ani and and the pressure dessure from above becomes turf far below lies lles lies iles hard chali coal the upper part is light and s spongy p ongy at various depths but sometimes as much as twenty feet below the surface an abundance I 1 of if is found consisting amly of oak hard and black as ebony or of the rich choco late colored wood of the yew such anc ent nt forests every now and then rise in awe ins 1 lr rin r majesty ajesta from their grave the h e whole city of hamburg its harbor and broad tracts of land abouna around it rest upon a sunken bunken forest which is naw now 1 buried at an immense depth below the surface it contains mostly limes and oaks but must also have abounded with hazel woods for thousands of hazel nuts are brought to light by every excavation not exactly made for nuts the city of new orleans it has been recently discovered is built upon the most magal magai cent foundation on which a city ever rose it was the boast of venice that her marble palaces rested in the waters of adriatic on or piles of costi costly wood which now serve to pay the debts of her tier degenerate sons but our V enice has not less than three tiers of gigant trees beneath it they all stand upright OP onn upon another with their roos spread out as they grew and the great sir charles charies lyell expresses his belief that it must roust have taken a least eighteen hundred years to fill up lh h 1 chasm since one tier had to rot away ariy to a level with the bottom of the swamp before the upper could grow I 1 upon on it pe do veres leaves from the book of lature nature |