Then the land on which these old forests grew sank slowly down, and the sea washed up sand and mud on the top of the mass of wood.

后来，这些古老森林下面的陆地，慢慢地沉了下去，海水将泥沙冲到了木头的上面。

Some of the sedges and willow boughs dip into the current, and just outside of the close ranks of trees there is a sunny flat of washed gravelly sand which seems to have been deposited by some ancient flood.

一些莎草和柳树枝浸入水流中，就在密密麻麻的树丛之外，有一片阳光充足的平地，上面铺满了被冲刷过的砾石沙，似乎是被远古的洪水冲刷过的。