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tree, popularly called the Upas Tree, when injected into 

 the blood of an animal, bird, or human being, there is, of 

 course, no donbt, for death ensues almost immediately. — 

 Ed. 



That I may connect this little biographical 

 history of trees with the principal subject of my 

 book, I shall conclude it with an account of two 

 or three celebrated trees from New Forest, in 

 Hampshire. 



The first I shall mention is that famous tree 

 against which the arrow of Sir Walter Tyrrel 

 glanced, which killed William Rufas. 



Leland tells us, and Camden * from him, that 

 the death of Rufus happened at a place in New 

 Forest called Througham, where a chapel was 

 erected to his memory. But I meet with no 

 place of the name of Througham in New Forest ; 

 and neither the remains, nor the remembrance, of 

 any chapel. It is probable that Througham might 

 be what is now called Fritham, where the tradition 

 of the country seems to have fixed the spot with 

 more credibility than the tree. The chapel might 



* See Camden's Account of JSTew Forest. 



