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paragrapli tlie Oak was still living, it will be noticed that, 

 in first mentioning it, he says ' About ten years ago,' &c., 

 ' stood an Oak.' Possibly the entire tree may hare dis- 

 appeared before the j^iMication of the 'Forest Scenery,' 

 the manuscript of which was written, as our Author stated, 

 ten years before it was first published. — Ed. 



