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which is a tree of peculiar beauty. It imme- 

 diately divides into feveral mafly limbs, each 

 of which hanging in grand loofe foliage, 

 fpreads over a large compafs of ground, and 

 yet the whole tree forms a clofe, compact 

 body : that is, it's boughs are not fo feparated, 

 as to break into diftincl parts. It cannot boaft 

 the fize of the yew-tree at Fotheringal, near 

 Taymouth in Scotland, which meafures fifty- 

 fix feet, and an half in circumference: nor 

 indeed the fize of many others on record: 

 but it has fufficient fize for all the purpofes 

 of landfcape, and in point of pi6lurefque 

 beauty it probably equals any of them. It 

 {lands not far from Lymington river, on the 

 left bank as you look towards the fea, between 

 Roydon-farm, and Boldre-church. It occupies 

 a fmall knoll, furrounded with other trees ; 

 fome of which are yews j but of inferior 

 beauty. A little ftream wafhes the bafe of 

 the knoll; and winding round forms it into 

 a peninfula. If any one fhould have curiofity 

 to vifit it from this defcription, and by the 

 help of thefe land-marks, I doubt not, but 

 he may find it, at any time, within the fpace 

 of thefe two or three centuries, in great per- 

 feftion, if it fuffer no external injury. If 



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