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pleasing Landscapes; through these we travel for about 3 

 miles, till we come to Lesbury Village, not much more than 

 a mile from the sea ; the approach to this Village is through 

 a fine double Eow of Ash-trees remarkably large and well 

 grown that over-shade the road, and show that this country 

 is not unfavourable to the growth of trees, notwithstanding 

 its present naked appearance ; but this will in a few years 

 be totally altered, and Northumberland bids fair to be one 

 of the best planted counties in England. This village of 

 Lesbury was noted in the last century for the long life of one 

 its Vicars, the Eev. Mr Mackel Wyan, who died about 1659, 

 aged 118: but, what was still more remarkable, about two 

 years before (viz., 1657, he being then aged 116) he had 

 a total renovation of all his faculties : his eyes, which had 

 been so much impaired that for 40 years before he could 

 not read without spectacles, were so much restored that he 

 could now read the smallest print : his hair, which before 

 he had lost, came again like that of an Infant : and his 

 teeth were renewed. A full account of his remarkable case 

 is preserved in the Philosophical Transactions : but I have 

 discovered more Instances of Longevity in this neighbourhood 

 than perhaps are to be found within the same distance in 

 any other part of England. 



