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each of wbict, hanging in grand loose fohage, 

 spreads over a large compass of ground, and yet 

 the whole tree forms a close, compact body : that 

 is, its boughs are not so separated, as to break 

 into distinct parts. It cannot boast the size of 

 the Yew tree at Fotheringal, near Taymouth in 

 Scotland, which measures fifty-six feet and a half 

 in circumference : nor indeed the size of many 

 others on record ; but it has suflBLcient size for all 

 the purposes of landscape, and in point of pic- 

 turesque beauty it probably equals any of them. 

 It stands not far from the banks of Lymington 

 river, on the left bank as you look towards the 

 sea, between Roydon Farm and Boldre Church. 

 It occupies a small knoll, surrounded with other 

 trees, some of which are Yews, but of inferior 

 beauty. A little stream washes the base of the 

 knoll and winding round forms it into a peninsula. 

 If any one should have curiosity to visit it 

 from this description, and by the help of these 

 landmarks, I doubt not but he may find it, at any 

 time, within the space of these two or three cen- 

 tui^ies, in great perfection if it suffer no external 

 injury. If such trees were common, they would 



