| Show ida age vegetation very like ours of today ite malits of an ice age cypress forest have hare been unearthed near an Ila capolli polls by dr charles T derry berry johns johng hopkins university paleontologist to seeds believed to indicate the type of 0 vegetation which covered this section of 0 the country from to scars ears ago also were discovered by doctor berry waves cutting into the face of 0 greenbury point were responsible for or doctor barrys berrys discovery the forest Is directly across the severn river from annapolis the swamp consisted chiefly ot of told bald cypress trees believed to have nourished flourished in pleistocene days it apparently filled a deep valley through which ran two ancient streams from one to throe three feet deep and several feet wide at the extreme end of the point end exposed only at low tide are approximately 25 cyl cypress ress stumps from two to six or more feet la in diameter at the cliffs base Is a five foot bed ot of black clay in the lower portion of which roots and knees of stumps are so interwoven that they sometimes form a solid wooden floor doctor derry berry was able to identify reveral species of ice age vegetation from seeds gathered in the muck it was pointed out however that the ancient vegetation attora did not differ greatly from that growing in the area today |
