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various places, are of this number. The latter arc 

 thus denominated, from the no uncommon circiim- 

 ftance of bulls taking ftielter within them, which 

 thefe animals effed:, not by going in and turning 

 round, but by retreating backwards into the cavity 

 till the head only projeds at the aperture. Th^ one 

 1 am about to particularize ftands in the middle of 

 ^ pafture, bears the moft venerable marks of anti- 

 <juity, gives the name compounded of.itfelf land 

 its fituation to the farpn: on which it grows, "viz* 

 Oakley Farm, and was the favourite retreat of a 

 t)ulL Twenty people, old and young, have crouded 

 'u)fx> it at a times a calf being Ihut up there for 

 convenience, its dam, a two-year-old heifer, con- 

 stantly went in to fuckle it, and. left fufEcient room 

 for milking her. It is fuppofed to be near a thou- 

 fand years old ; the body is nothing but a Ihell, 

 covered with burly protuberances j* theupperpart 

 of the fhaft is hollow like a chimney, it has been 

 mutilated of all its limbs, but from their Humps 

 ^ife a number of fmall branches, forming a brufhy. 

 bead, fo remarkable for fertility, that in years of 

 plenty it has produced two facks of acorns in ^ 



* It meafures in the iniddle round thefe burls a 9 fe§t 3 

 inches, round the ftumps of the old arms 31 feet 6 inches in the 

 ihialleft part j between two and three feet from the ground it, is *6 

 lectin circumference. 



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