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Plymouth Haven, and other adjoining places. This learned anti- 

 quary has enumerated many parts of England, where subterranean 

 trees have been discovered. 



Childrey relates, that about two miles eastward from St. Mi- 

 chael's Mount, *at low water, they cast aside the sand on the shore, 

 and dig up turfs that are full of the roots of trees ; and on some 

 of these they have found nuts *. The tinners, he also says, do 

 many times dig up whole and huge timber trees, which they think 

 were overthrown, and have lain buried in the earth ever since the 

 flood f. 



Childrey also states, that in divers places, in the low grounds 

 and champaign fields of the island of Anglesey, the inhabitants do 

 every day find, and dig out of the earth the bodies of huge trees, 

 with their roots ; and fir trees of a wonderful bigness and length : 

 which trees, in the opinion of Hugh Lloyd, were such as were cut 

 down by the Romans in their time ; because Tacitus saith, the 

 Romans, when they had conquered this island, caused all their 

 woods to be cut down, and utterly destroyed J. But from this 

 opinion, as some are found with their roots on, Childrey, with pro- 

 priety, dissents. He remarks, that there are also, on the shores of 

 Cumberland, trees discovered by the winds at low water, which are 

 else covered over with sand. And it is reported, he says, by the 

 people dwelling thereabouts, that they dig up trees without boughs, 

 out of the ground in the mossy places of this shire ; and that, by the 

 direction of the dew in summer ; for they observe, that the dew 

 never stands upon that ground under which they lie . 



This author, I believe, on the authority of Giraldus Cambrensis, 

 states, that at the time when Henry II. made his abode in Ireland, 

 were extraordinary violent and lasting storms of wind and weather; 

 so that the sandy shore on the coast of this shire (Pembrokeshire) 



* Britannia Baconica, by J. Childrey, 1661, p. 10. f Ibid. p. 6. 

 { Ibid. p. 15. Ibid. p. 111. 



