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of the navy. But it is, at this time, much 

 diminished; owing chiefly to the neighbour- 

 hood of feveral iron forges, which it has long 

 fupplied with fuel. There is however ftill 

 more the appearance of a foreft preferved 

 here, both in the fcenery, and in the jurif- 

 diction, than in almoft any other part of 

 England. The courts are held in a large 

 houfe, which was built for this purpofe in 



the middle of the foreft. In the county 



of Gloucefter alfo is the foreft of Micklewood; 

 on the confines of which ftands Berkly-caftle 



of celebrated antiquity. King's-wood too 



is another foreft in this county, which being 

 bounded by the Avon, fpreads itfelf almoft 

 to the walls of Briftol. 



In Oxfordshire we have only the fingle 

 foreft of Whichwood. 



In Buckinghamshire, we have thofe of 

 Bernwood, and Clitern. Bernwood runs along 

 the hilly country from Aylefbury almoft to 

 Oxford. Clitern was formerly a very thick 

 impervious wood, and noted for being the 



haunt 



