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as shews them to be natives : But to put this at last 

 out of controversie, see the extract of Mr. de la Prim's 

 letter to the Royal Society, Transact, n. 277, and 

 the old map of Crout, and of the yet (or lately) 

 remaining firs, growing about Hatfield in the com- 

 mons, flourishing from the shrubs and stubs of those 

 trees, to which I refer the reader. As for buried 

 trees of this sort, the late Dr. Merrett, in his Pinax, 

 mentions several places of this nation, where sub- 

 terraneous-trees are found ; as namely, in Cornwal, 

 adfinem terrce^ in agris Flints; in Penbroke-shire towards 

 the shore, where they so abound, ut totum littus (says 

 the Doctor) tanquam siha ccedua apparet ; in Cheshire 

 also (as we said) Cumberland and Anglesey, and several 

 of our Euro-boreal tracts, and are called Noah's-ark. 

 By Chatnesse in Lancashire (says Camden) the low 

 mossie ground was no very long time since, carried 

 away by an impetuous flood, and in that place now 

 lies a low irriguous vale, where many prostrate trees 

 have been digged out : And from another I receive, 

 that in the moors of Somersetshire (towards Bridg- 

 water) some lengths of pasture growing much with- 

 ered, and parched more than other places of the same 

 ground, in a great drowth, it was observ'd to bear 

 the length and shape (in gross) of trees ; they digg'd, 

 and found in the spot oaks, as black as ebony, and 

 have been from hence instructed, to take up many 

 hundreds of the same kind : In a fenny tract of the 

 Isles of Axholme, (lying part in Lincolnshire, and 

 part in Yorkshire) have been found oaks five yards in 

 compass, and fifteen in length, some of them erect, 

 and standing as they grew ; in firm earth below the 

 moors, with abundance of fir, which lie more stooping 

 than the oak ; some being 36 yards long, besides the 



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