228 Gilpin's fokest scenery. 



Thougli its age cannot be ascertained, we may 

 easily suppose it lias been a living witness of the 

 funerals of, at least, a dozen generations of the 

 inhabitants of the parish. 



From Mr. W. Gascoigne Roy, of Byams, Marchwood, 

 we learn tliat the old Tew Tree in Dibden Churcliyard has 

 now disappeared. During a severe gale on the 30th of 

 November, 1836, the larger portion of its trunk was up- 

 rooted and fell to the ground. Not very long since a 

 part of its stump was visible, but that has now become 

 lost to sight. A table made from its wood is in the pos- 

 session of the family of Mr. Gray, the late Eector of 

 Dibden. Mr. Roy adds, — 'There is a juvenile Yew, of 

 something under a hundred yeai's old, close to the spot 

 where the old Yew stood, — possibly a seedling from it.' 

 —Ed. 



But it is not only to exhibit these venerable 

 remains of antiquity, that I would draw the curious 

 to this spot ; but for the sake also of the views 

 which it presents. From this lofty stand, the eye 

 looks down, over a woody bottom, upon the bay 

 of Southampton, spread far and wide below it ; 

 covered with shipping, and extending like a vast 

 lake. Far up the bay, on the opposite side, the 

 hazy towers of Southampton appear shooting into 



