Brigham City Bugler | 1891-10-03 | Page 3 | An Ancient Buried Forest

I An Ancient Bnrled Forest. During the late violent storms In the English channel the sea washed through a high and hard sandbank near St. M:iio. almost four meters thick, laying hare a portion of An ancient forest, which was already passing into the condition of coal. The London Times says: "This forest at : the beginning of our era covered on ex-I ex-I tensive tract of the coast, but with the 1 sinking of the land it became submerged and covered up by the drifting sand. Mont i Saint Michel once stood in the middle of 1 It. The forest had quite, disappeared by the middle of the Tenth century Occasionally, Oc-casionally, at very low tides after storms, remains of it aro disclosed, just as at present. It ts believed that some cent-! cent-! nriea ngo tlio highest tides rose about ' twelve meters above the level of the lowest ebb. Now the high water level is , 1.".5 meters above the lowest." Home , Journal.