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over the year by being fteeped in vinegar. 

 But I am well fatisfied this is not the cafe. 

 Mr. Lightfoot, to whom I fent the leaves, 

 had no fuch fufpicion. 



Another tree worth pointing out in New- 

 foreft, is an immenfe yew, which ftands in 

 the church-yard at Dibden. It is now, and 

 probably has been, during the courfe of the 

 laft century, in the decline of life. But it's 

 hollow trunk ftill fupports three vafl flems ; 

 and meafures below them, about thirty feet 

 in circumference- a girth, which perhaps no 

 other yew-tree in England can exhibit. Tho 

 it's age cannot be afcertained, we may eafily 

 fuppofe, it has been a living witnefs of the 

 funerals of at leaft a dozen generations of the 

 inhabitants of the parifh. 



!But it is not only to exhibit thefe vene- 

 rable remains of antiquity, that I would draw 

 the curious to this fpot-, but for the fake alfo 

 of the views, which it prefents. From this 

 lofty ftand the eye looks down, over a woody 

 bottom, upon the bay of Southampton, fpread 

 far and wide below it ; covered with (hipping ; 

 and extending like a vaft lake. Far up the 



3 bay, 



