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Huntingdon takes it's name, as etymologifts 

 fiippofe, from being a country adapted to 

 hunting*. We may imagine therefore, that 

 in elder times, when fuch beafts were hunted, 

 as required large covers, a great part of the 

 county was foreft. At prefent, tho we have 

 the veftiges of feveral woods, we meet with 

 no foreft directly named, but that of Wa- 

 bridge. 



In Glocefterfhire, the foreft of Dean has 

 ever been efteemed one of the moft celebrated 

 forefts in England. It is of large extent, 

 not lefs than twenty miles in length -, and 

 half as many in breadth ; ftretching, on 

 the fouth-eaft, along the Severn ; and on the 

 north- weft along the Wye -, the picturefque 

 fcenes of which latter river it greatly improves 

 by often prefenting it's woody diftances. The 

 timber in this foreft was formerly more in 

 requeft, than any other timber, for the fervice 



* See Camden's Huntingdon fhire. 



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