"Undecomposed" Quotes from Famous Books
... in length, fifty miles wide, and eight hundred feet thick. It overlies a bed of saliferous sandstone which has been worked for salt. Fifty feet within a mine, and in the undisturbed rock which forms its roof, the doctor found fragments of dicotyledonous trees with the bark on, undecomposed, uncharred, and fibrous.] ... — The Andes and the Amazon - Across the Continent of South America • James Orton |