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A DISCOURSE 



BOOK III. INIasohertus, cited by Camden, that were every one of them a mile in 

 ^-""^-V^ compass. In a word, to give an instance of what store of woods, and tim- 

 ber of prodigious size, there were growing in our little county of Surry, 

 (with sufficient grief and reluctancy I speak it,) my own grandfather had 



from Mansfield, is the Duncan Planlation, in honour of the victory gained by lord viscount 

 Duncan over the Dutch fleet. In these plantations^ pillars are erected with inscrip- 

 tions. 



Since this survey, many extensive inclosures have been made, and much waste land has 

 been planted by the duke of Portland and other proprietors, to whose patriotism this nation 

 is much indebted. The time will come when these Oaks will be venerated by posterity as 

 monuments of British valour, successfully exerted in every part of the habitable globe, 

 in defence of the happiness and liberties of mankind. The illustrious Linnaeus staled our 

 happy island the " Punctum Vitae in Vitello Oi-bis." A compliment that Rome, in the me- 

 ridian of her glory, never deserved. 



Forests in England, many of xvhich are without trees. 



Northumberland, 2 — Rothbury, in the middle of it ; Lowes, on the west-side. Cumber- 

 land, 5 — Nicol, Knaredale, Westwood, Inglewood, and Copeland, all desolate. Westmore- 

 land, 6 — Milburn, on the north ; Whinfield, Martindale, and Thornwaite, on the west ; Stani- 

 more, and Mellerstang, on the east. Bishopric of Durham, 1 — Langdale or Teesdale, on the 

 banks of the Tees. Lancashire, 3 — Lancaster, and W'iresdale, a little to the south ; Simons- 

 wood, almost to Liverpool. Yorkshire, 10 — Lime, Applegarth, Swalidale, and Wenesley 

 Dale, on the north j Pickering, on the east ; Knaresborough in the middle ; Harewood, on 

 the south ; Galtrice, on the east, v.'hich extends almost to York ; Hardwick, near Halifax ; 

 Hatfield Chace, the scite now only to be seen. Cheshire, 2 — Delamerc, and Macclesfield : 

 there was formerly Wircall forest, which occupied the peninsula between the Mersey and 

 the Dee. Nottinghamshire, 1 — Sherwood. Shropshire, 4 — Huckstow, Kinswood, Bridge- 

 north, and Clune. Staffordshire, 2 — Needwood, and the extensive forest of Cankwood. 

 Leicestershire, 2 — Charnwood, to the south, and the forest of Leicester. Rutlandshire, 1— 

 Lyfield. Hertfordshire, 4 — Bringwood, Durfield, Hawood, and Acornbury. Worcester- 

 shire, 3 — Wire, north-west, Malvern, and Feckingham. Warwickshire, 1 — Arden. North- 

 amptonshire, 4 — Rockingham, Salcey, Yardley, and Whittlebury. Huntingdonshire, 1 — 

 Wabridge. Gloucestershire, 3 — Dean, Micklewood, and Kingswood. Oxfordshire, 1 — 

 Wichwood. Buckinghamshire, 2 — BeruAvood, and Clitern. Essex, 2 — Epping, and Hain- 

 hault. Wiltshire, 4 — Peevisham, Blakemore, Bradon, and Savernach. Berkshire, 1 — Wind- 

 sor. Middlesex, 1 — Enfield. Surry and Kent, 1 — Tunbridge. Sussex, 7 — St. Leonard's, 

 Word, Ashdown, Walterdown, Dallington, Arundel, and Charlton. In Cornwall there 

 does not appear to have been any. Devonshire, 2 — Dartmore and Exmore. Somersetshire, 

 2 — Neroke and Selwood. Dorsetshire, 3 — GiUingham Cranburn ; Cranburn Chace, east ; 

 Blackmore, west, commonly called the forest of Whitehart ; the whole island of Purbeck 

 Was once a forest. Hampshire, 5 — Chute, on the north ; Harewood, on the west ; Holt, on 

 tlie east ; Waltham, on the south ; Bere, near Titchfield, and the New Forest, on the south- 

 west. — In all, 86 forests. 



