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pamphlet was drawn up, containing a par- 

 ticular account of all the circumftances re- 

 lating to it. 



At length, the owner of it, a gentleman 

 of the name of Forbes, making too ram 

 an experiment to difcover the caufe, bored 

 a hole in it's trunk. After this it never 

 groaned. It was then rooted up, with a 

 farther view to make a difcovery : but flill 

 nothing appeared, which led to any invefti- 

 gation of the caufe. It was univerfally how- 

 ever believed, that there was no trick in the 

 affair : but that fome natural caufe really 

 exifted, tho never underftood. 



Another celebrated tree, which I mall pre- 

 fent to the reader from New-foreft, is the 

 Cadenham oak, which buds every year in 

 the depth of winter. Cadenham is a village, 

 about three miles from Lyndhurft, on the 

 Salifbury road. 



Having often heard of this oak, I took 

 a ride to fee it on the 2pth of december, 

 1781. It was pointed out to me among 

 feveral other oaks', furrounded by a little foreft 

 ftream, winding round a knoll, on which they 



flood. 



