BURIED FORESTS IN THE MISSISSIPPI.
An examination of the delta of the Mississippi has led to some cartons discoveries. It shows that for a distance of 300 miles there are buried many forests of large trees one above the other, with interspaces of- sand Ten distinct growths are in fact observed, which must, in the opinion of the erudite men who have examined them,have succeeded one another. They prove to be the bald cypress of the Southern States, and some have been found over 25ft in diameter, one boasting as many as 6,700 rings. From these facts the geologists of the neighborhood have drawn the conclusion that the antiquity of each forest growth is 10,000 years, thus giving 100,000 years to the entire set. One can but admire the closeness of the calculation which these figures suggest, To the great minds which have grappled with the phenomena it has not occurred that they took periods of different length to constitute themselves; with the great advantage that the philosophers thus escape what would have been esteemed enormous difficulties by other scientific men, such, for instance, as Sir Charles Lyell. ■
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2821, 10 April 1882, Page 3
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188BURIED FORESTS IN THE MISSISSIPPI. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2821, 10 April 1882, Page 3
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