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This buried forest has been traced from Cromer to near Kessingland, a distance of more than forty miles, being exposed at certain seasons between high and low water mark. It is the remains of an old land and estuarine deposit, containing the submerged stumps of trees standing erect with their roots in the ancient soil.
The line from Newcastle, is worked direct to Nylstud, in Russia a distance of 890 miles by means of a "relay" or "repeater," at Gothenburg. The relay is the apparatus at which the Newcastle current terminates, but in ending there it itself starts a fresh current on to Russia. Two cables to Holland: Lowestoft to Zandvoort, laid in 1858 , and from Benacre, Kessingland, to Zandvoort .
This buried forest has been traced for more than 40 miles, being exposed at certain seasons and states of the beach between high and low water mark. It extends from Cromer to near Kessingland, and consists of the stumps of numerous trees standing erect, with their roots attached to them, and penetrating in all directions into the loam or ancient vegetable soil on which they grew.
Posh's wife, whose state of health is referred to in this letter, survived till 1892, but for many years suffered from tuberculosis in the lungs. The Monitor was a Kessingland craft, and belonged to one Hutton. But whether Posh fished with "sunk" or "swum" nets his luck was out for the season of 1867.
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