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generally known or remembered. Evelyn, after 

 mentioning several giants of the forests, both 

 of his own and of foreign countries, says, 



" To these I might add a yew tree in the 

 churchyard of Crowhurst, in the county of Sur- 

 rey, which I am told is ten yards in compass ? 

 but especially that superannuated yew tree now 

 growing in Braburne churchyard, not far from 

 Scott's Hall, in Kent ; which being fifty-eight 

 feet, eleven inches, in the circumference, will 

 bear near twenty feet diameter, as it was mea- 

 sured first by myself imperfectly, and then 

 more exactly for me, by order of the late Right 

 Honourable Sir George Carteret, Vice Cham- 

 berlain to his Majesty, and late Treasurer of 

 the Navy : not to mention the goodly planks, 

 and other considerable pieces of squared and 

 clear timber, which I observed to lie about it, 

 that had been hewed and sawn out of some of 

 the arms only, torn from it by impetuous winds. 

 Such another monster, I am informed, is also 

 to be seen in Sutton churchyard, near Winches- 

 ter."* In a note, the Editor of the Sylva (Dr. 

 A. Hunter) gives the following account of a 

 most remarkable oak, actually rivalling the Bao- 

 bab in girth, it is accompanied by an engrav- 



Sylva. Vol. ii. Book 5, Ch. 3, p. 195. Hunter's 



