SUBMARINE

The inroads of the sea have in many places submerged forests of considerable extent. A submarine forest on the coast of Lincoln shire was described in 1799 by Correa de Serra. {Phil. Trans.) Another was discovered in 1832 in Cardigan Bay: it is said to have been submerged in the year 520. The remains of the trees are covered by peat. A similar fir wood, beneath the mean level of the sea, exists at Bourne mouth, in Hampshire. These forests are sometimes also found in inland situations, of which there is a good example about four miles west of Newcastle-onTyne, near the river, consisting of an immense number of trees lying a few feet beneath the surface. At the bottom of the mo of Kincardine, under a bed of peat 4S 4 [s. 1384]