These were petrified trees, eleven being silicified, and from thirty to forty converted into coarsely-crystallised white calcareous spar.

They were abruptly broken off, the upright stumps projecting a few feet above the ground.

The trunks measured from three to five feet each in circumference.

They stood a little way apart from each other, but the whole formed one group.

Mr.Robert Brown has been kind enough to examine the wood: he says it belongs to the fir tribe, partaking of the character of the Araucarian family, but with some curious points of affinity with the yew.