The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1846-10-30
AGRICULTURAL.
DURABILITY aE rianEHs WEI
.-sAFE.

i" In digging away the foundation Of
old Savoy Palace. London, which was
built TX HUNDRED aud iiily years ago; the
whole If the p,t-s, consisting Of ash
elm. beach ana cht,Ha were found ia
petlrcl STATE 81 -eau~e-s airo SO
The pl4aspg warn cevered tac OIL,
heads.
This rafagr4pt is taken fom an Ia
elish paper Tae cedar swaps Of c ps
May afford cyra more ree4lh.bIe pron.s
OF the duia5 Ivy OF timber ia wet stole.
o. the north sil. of Maurice river
crack the meadows aui cedlr swamps,
as f,r up as the fast Ind, are d.icd wlIh
buried ceAars t. an uAknown depth. In
1914 or 1915 an attempt was mtle To
sink a well.carh near - Dennis creek
Landing, bnt after eneonnleflag much
Officially ia cl.tiag t.rIagh number oI
logs, the Nork.n II were compelled a, lust
tn give up the attempt by dniing, at the
depth OF twenty feet, nplei nlss u
cedar logs.
Il i, constant hi mess near Dennis
Creek 10 mine cedar s'Hages.' This Is
dlne by probing the s"fI null of the
swamps with poles, f'r the purpose %,
discovering buriri cedar li'nb,r; an
WHEN loI is l1Inl tae mu is elaared
of. and cut in proper lengths with long
oae.handIeI saw, an these lengths spli.
IN into shingles aIi taken ont Of the
swamp ready for sale. This kind Of wor,
gives constant employment to large
number of hands. The trees found are
from four to FIVE feet in diameter; they lie
in every possible position, and some Of
them seem 10 have been buried for many
centuries. Thus, sInaps Of trees which
have been decaying century, are found
standing in the placen which they grew,
while the trunks Of very aged cedlrs are
lying horizontally under their roots. One
ofihese instances is thus described to Us.
in a manuscript from DR.. Bresley, Of
Dennis creek, who has himself mined
many thousand cedar shingles, and is
now engaged in the business:
Il have in my 'm'n3' cellr some .
and half feet over, under large cedar
stump six feet ia diameter. Upon count
ing tie annual grow,hs Of the stump,
found ,0S0 in the three feet from the
centre 10 lie outside OF the tree. The
slump must have been 1850 years in
growing. TO all appearance the tree to
which il belonged has been dead for cen
turtles; for, after a stump in these mca-
daws decays down to the wet there is 10
more-none, at least, that is perceptbIe.
Now. we have l,0S0 years for the growth
Of the stump, and 500 for its decay, and
500 for the growth Of the tree under it !;
Tor this mast have grown and fallen be
fore the tree to which The stump belong
ed sprouicd. We are thus carried back
for the term of perhaps 1000 years, OF
which 1900 are determined, beyond
question, by the growth of the tree"
The better opinion is, that these trees
have gralually sunk through the soft mud
OF the swaTp5, a0sr having attained their
growth sll f!.,n. Msas, r5weyer,
have dsrsysl IN i'i-ir cree, position, 10
~ susa7 .s !-E u s,gmps standing .
ssiy Erss.
1ss zsh8.i isla-e ofibe mouth
q Ds.zss e-eas, AL about three miles
q az -aEi7g timber, can Be seen at
lfs z1.-. 30 gre jsi 81 Tie stream. no.
zzl71-s cesar s1i pine s,unps, about
-, b-5oT Re sa.ll-s Il the meadow
vnh iss 5rs sa, aJacriug to some
ahsa ..s mad i- removed. IS one pass
Is VI the ersfk laT mile. lhe stump.
sp1fa1-h l= suffice, and near the el.,.
81 tie lie sE5np- lh-y become very nu.
tasfo1s.-TssaJ1 C1-sue.