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Where feas of glafs with gay reflexions fmile 

 Round the gr.een coafts of Java's palmy ifle; 

 A fpacious plain extends it's upland fcene, 

 Rocks rife on rocks, and fountains gum between. 

 Soft breathes the breeze; eternal fummers reign, 



And fhowers prolific blefs the foil in vain! 



No fpicy nutmeg fcents the vernal gales : 



No towering plantain fhades the mid-day vales : 



No grafly mantle hides the fable hills : 



No flowery chaplet crowns the trickling rills : 



No ftep retreating on the fand imprefled, 



Invites the vifit of a fecond gueft. 



Fierce in dread filence, on the blafted heath 



Fell Upas fits. 



That I may conned: this little biographical 

 hiftory of trees with the principal fubject of 

 my book, I mall conclude it with an account 

 of two, or three celebrated trees from New- 

 foreft, in Hamplhire. 



The firft I mall mention, is that famous 

 tree, againft which the arrow of Sir Walter 

 Tyrrel glanced, which killed William Rufus. 



Leland tells us, and Camden* from him, 

 that the death of Rufus happened at a place 

 in New-foreft, called Througham, where a 

 chapel was erected to his memory. But I 



* See Camden's account of New-foreft. 



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