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Bartram's Travels p. 67

Every planter along the coast of Carolina Georgia, Florida sees the stumps of trees going below the surface of the tidal marshes –

 

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or the sea. (or would appear I think from some of his facts) or as follows "But it seems evident, even to demonstration that those salt marshes adjoining the coast of the main & the reedy & grassy islands & marshes in the rivers, which are now overflowed at every tide were formerly high swamps of firm land, affording forests of cypress, tupelo, Magnolia grandiflora, oak, ash, sweet bay, and other timber trees, the same as are now growing on this river swamp whose surface is two feet or more above the spring tide that flow at this day, & it is plainly seen by every planter along the of Carolina, Georgia & Florida, to the Mississippi, when they bank in these grassy tide marshes for cultivation, that they cannot sink their drains above 3 or 4 ft below the surface, before they come to a strata of cypress stumps, and other trees, close together as they now grow in the swamps."

 

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Bartram's travel in North America p. 433 not far from near Point Coupè, at the Cliffs, he came to a cliff of about 100 ft in height of brown red yellow white blue & purple clay but "the lowest stratum next the water is exactly of the same Rock mud or rich soil as the adjacent low cypress swamps above & below the bluff; & here, in the cliffs, we see vast stumps of cypress & other trees which, at this day, grow in these low, wet swamps, & which range on a level with them. These stumps are sound, stand upright & seem to be rotted of about 2 or 3 ft above the spread of their roots; their trunks, limbs, &c., lie in all directions about them." cannot understand how broken off [reread]

p. 66 The Islands on the coast of Georgia are separated by flat. – doubts whether the land is gaining