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 vaft {terns j 

 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 ealily 

 fuppofe, it has been a living witiiefs of the 

 funerals of at leaft a dozen generations of the 

 inhabitants of the parim. 

 - 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 alib 

 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 



bay, 



