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which being fifty-eight feet eleven inches in 

 circumference, will bear near twenty feet in 

 diameter : not to mention the goodly planks, 

 and other considerable pieces of squared and 

 clear timber, which had been hewed and 

 sawn out of some of the arms only torn from 

 it by impetuous winds. Such another mon- 

 ster is also to be seen in Sutton churchyard, 

 near Winchester." 



Several fine old trees are to be seen on 

 some sandy rocks about two miles from 

 Withyam, and five from Tunbridge. 



Near the church at Hedson, in Bucks, is 

 a fine growing yew-tree, which measures 

 twenty-seven feet in circumference. There are 

 other large trees on the chalk hills of the 

 same county ; and a shady walk of them in 

 the garden of Bradenham-house, near West 

 Wycombe, the branches of which would make 

 excellent bows. 



There is a large yew-tree standing in the 

 churchyard at Henfield, in Sussex, whose 

 extending branches cast a thick shade over 

 all the graves in the angle in which it stands. 

 This part of the burial ground is fenced with 

 a holly-hedge, that adds considerably to the 

 gloom of the spot. 



The author, when at school in that village, 

 was induced to join five other boys, all about 



