# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Dezember 1898_S367
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Wissenschaften und Glaubensartikel. 367

nature of their surface peat-mosses have frequently been the re-
ceptacles for bodies of men and animals that ventured upon them.
pSAi rroat antieie hower tühesri ins are SAinl
in à State of excellent preservation. In Ireland the remains of the
XUInet iach Ii K Maunceoros Isberniuss r uen dug .
from many of the bogs. Human weapons, tools and ornaments
have been recovered abundantly from peat-mosses; likewise cran—
noges, or pile (constructed in the original lakes that preceded the
mosses), and canoes hollowed out of single trees.“ (S. 461.)

Ja, man hat Baumstämme in ihrer natürlichen Stellung
aufgerichtet gefunden in den Schichten, und zwar umgeben von
Schichten verschiedener Steinarten. Darüber lesen wir a. a. O.,
S. 495: Where, as in fig. 214, the trees actually grew on the spot
Wwhere their stems remain, it is evident that the rate of deposit of
the sediment which entombed them must have been sufficiently
rapid to have allowed a mass 0f 20 or 30 féeet to accumulate before
the decay of the wood. .. It occasionally happens that an ereet
trunk has keht its position even during the accumulationt of a series
of strata around it. (Fig. 215.) We can hardly believe that in such
ases any considerable number of years could have elapsed between
the death of the tree and its final entombment. From the decayed
Condition of the interior of some imbedded trees we may likewise
infer that accumulation of sediments is not always an extremely

re.

Weitie geitehl auc sonst zu . 0, uß zur Nildung
von Berseeineren ½e kine schnelle Sedimentablüetrunr ½½01½½ it. Das isi
auc sein dlausibei, hrend es säer vermtunb 24. ½ Planzen und
Thiere in Vern,enung ubergehen kennen, wete si, seh lansam allmäh⸗
lich von unten tauf ingeschlossen werden. Tanatt h½ er hhere Theil
langsi uerwesi and „eangen sein unter din Einstus n.n tetung, bie die
Sedimente ie mwelt zraufkommen lonnten. Man siin auh oft nur noch
die Form der einst eingeschlossenen Organismen.

Ueber der nrde Nildung ven Mahlen ant Wi.anrtmsen beirhtet
Geikie in seinem Buch S. 306: Some of the timber in a long dis-
used level (in thlie Dorothea mines, Clausthal) filled with slate rub-
bish, and saturated with the minewater from decomposing pyrites,
was found to have a leathery consistence when wet, but on ex-
posure to the air hardened to a sirm and ordinary brown coal,
which had the typical brown color and external sibrous structure,
with the internal fracture of a black glossy pitch-conl. This change
must have been produced within less than four centuries — the time
since the levels were opened. Daubreéee has produced from wood,
exposed to the action of superheated water, drop-like globuler of
anthracite whlich had evidently been melted in the transformations