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particularly near Reigate, but more abun- 

 dantly in the vicinity of Dorking. 



Evelyn notices it in the latter place in the 

 time of Charles the Second : he says in his 

 Silva, " He that in winter should behold some 

 of our highest hills in Surrey clad with whole 

 woods of these trees, and box, for divers miles 

 in circuit (as those delicious groves of them, 

 belonging to the honourable, my noble friend, 

 the late Sir Adam Brown, of Bech worth-castle), 

 from Box-hill, might, without the least vio- 

 lence to his imagination, easily fancy himself 

 transported into some new or enchanted 

 country ; for, if in any spot in England, 



Hie ver assiduwn, atque alienis mensibus cestas. Virgil. 



" Tis here 



Eternal spring and summer all the year." 



Mr. Pennant says the yew is to be found 

 wild upon the hills that bound the waters of 

 the Winander, and on the face of many pre- 

 cipices of different places in this kingdom. 

 Mr. Lightfoot says, that it is found here and 

 there in the Highlands of Scotland in a truly 

 wild state ; and that at Glenure, near Glen- 

 creran, in Upper Lorn, there are the remains 

 of an old wood of yew. 



In some parts of Buckinghamshire, it comes 

 up in great abundance from the berries spon- 

 taneously. 



