§2 A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. 



8. What goodly Trecj were of old ador'd^ and confecrated by 

 the Dryads I leave to con)cdture from the ftories of our ancient 

 Britaifts, who had they left Records of their prodigies in thiskind, 

 would doubtlefs have furnilh'd us with examples as remarkable for 

 the growth zndjiatureof Trees, as any which we have cTcduc'd 

 from the Writers of forreign places, fince the remains of what 

 are yet in being (notwithftanding the havock which has univer- 

 fally been made, and the little care to improve our Woods) 

 may ftand in fair competition with any thing that ^ntiquitj can 

 produce. 



9. There is fomewhere in W^4/e/ an I«/fr7p*/tf« extant, cut into 

 the wood of an old Beam, thus 



SEXAGINTA PEDES FVERANT IN STlPItE NOSTRO, 

 EXCEPTA COMA ^JE SPECIOSA FVIT. 



This muft needs have been a noble Tree, but not without later 

 parallels i for to inftance in the feveral jpecies, and fpeak firft of 

 the bulks of fome immenfe Trees 5 there was ftanding an old and 

 decay 'd Chef-nut at Fr ailing in Ejjex, whofe very ftump did yield 

 thirty fizable load of Logs , I could produce you another of the 

 fame kind in GloceSierJhire which contains within the bowels of it a ' 

 pretty wain-fcotted Room inlighten'd with windows,and furnilh'd 

 with feats, €^c. to anfwer the Lician Platanus lately mention'd. 



10. But whileft I am on this period j fee what a Tilia that moft 

 learn'djand obliging perfon, D. Brorvn of Norwich, defcribes to me 

 in a Letter jufl: now receiv'd. 



An extraordinary large, andfiately Tilia, Linden or Lime-tree, 

 there grojveth at Depeham in Norfolk, ten miles fiom Norwich 

 Tohofe meafitre is this. The compaf in the leaB part of the Trunk or 

 body about tn>o yards fiom the ground is at leaB eight yards andhalf: 

 about the root nigh the earth, fixteen yards '■, about half a yard above 

 that, neer twelve yards in circuit : The height to the uppermost 

 houghs about thirty yards, vphich fur mounts the famous Tilia <7f Zu- 

 rich in Switzerland j and uncertain it is whether in any Tilicetum, 

 flr Lime-walk abroad it be confiderably exceeded : let was the fir ^ 

 motive I had to view it not Jo much the largenefof the Tree, as the 

 general opinion that no man could ever name it '^ hut I found it to be 

 a Tilia faemina ; and (if the diJiinCfion of Bauhinus be admitted 

 fi-om the greater, and lejferlenkf) aT'ilh Platuphyllos or Latifolia j 

 fime leaves betngthvee inches broad -^ but to dijiinguip it from others 

 in the Country, / call'd it Tilia Coloflaea Depehamenlis. Thus 

 the Doftor. 



A Poplar-tree not much inferior to this he informs me grew late- 

 ly at Harlingly Thetford, at Sir William Gawdies gaf e, blown down 

 by that terrible Hurrocan about four years (ince. 



11. lam told of a very Withy-tree to be feen fomewhere in 

 Bark:fljire which is increafed to a moft ftupcndious bulk : But 

 thefe for arriving haftily to their Acme, and period, and generally 

 not fo confidcrable for their ufe 5 I pafs to the Afi^ Elm, Oak., C^^ • 



There 



