meuaces In respect orally ^ th,
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Arizona’s Petrified Forest.
The petrified forest of Arizona Is
really a series of petrified forests.
There are four of these forests Includ
ed In a government reservation called
Petrified Forest National- monument,
created by presidential proclamation
In 1900. The name “forest” is not
strictly appropriate, for the petrified
tree trunks are all prostrate and are
broken Into sections. The logs are
the remains of giant trees that grew
In Triasslc time, the age of reptiles.
Some of the tree trunks are six feet
In diameter and more tliun a hundred
feet In length. In the first forest
there Is a fine trunk that forms a
natural bridge over a small ravine,
the water having first washed away
the overlying clay and sand and then,
following a crevice, worked out the
channel underneath. The length of
this log Is 110 feet, and the diameter
four feet at the butt and one and one
fast ss. ifci.tsfc Tbm fueuJwve
D'eefi glvefa’ diif by Lie Culted Stutes
geological survey.
Ice Railway In Canada.
It Is true. On New Year’s day, 1880,
the Southeastern railway commenced
to build a railway across the Ice from
the north bank of the St. Lawrence
river, at a point near Bellerlve Park
and the Longueuil ferry to Longueull.
The promoters of the plan Included
Judge Monusau, M. A. B. Foster, Mr.
L. A. Senecal and Mr. J. B. Benaul.
