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We have often read in the fagcinatin tales of the ' Thousand and One Nights’ of remarkable mountains of gold and valleys of precious stones containing wealth inex haustible; but parhops we have not even heard that there is in America a place which is peculiarly reminiscent of them, Thia is the petrified forest of Arizona, which, being the only one of its kind, can rightly be considered as a wonder. Locally, the forest is very appropriately named, Chalca deny Park. For miles around the ground is covered with enormous logs petrified to the core, which lie where they fell centuries, perhaps ages, age, and dazzle the eye on . one bright day with the most beautiful colours. Some resemble the amethyst, some amoky topaz, while others appear as pure and as white an alabaster. In placea chips of the agate cover the ground to the depth of one foot, and it is easy $0 pick from them cross-sections show ing distinctly every vein and even the bark of the original wood. One gigantic tree spagning a ‘gulch’ forty feet wide is undoubted the only bridge of agate in the world; and, though it has been in the same peculiar position for centuries, it is ite firm, long strong enough to endure for as long a peri.
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette
Alexandra, Otago, NZ
Wed, Sep 06, 1905
Page 7
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