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bourhood of West Meon, in Hampshire. The forest 

 between Meon and Proutesflod (Privet) bore the name 

 of Westan wudu, as parts of it still bear the name of 

 West wood, and doubtless acquired this name as being 

 the west end of the Saxon Andredes weald, which suc- 

 ceeded to the Eoman Anderida Silva, and the ancient 

 British Andred. This forest extended, on the west, 

 from the north and south of the vale of the Meons* to 

 the coast east of the Eoman Anderida, or Saxon Andre- 

 desceaster, whether this is taken as Pevensey in Sussex, 

 or as Newenden in Kent. And Andredes weald still 

 gives the name to a great part of Sussex and of Kent ; 

 and, singularly enough, it furnishes a European name 

 to geological strata extending from Wardour, in Dor- 

 setshire, to the chalk border of the Paris basin, Hano- 

 ver, and the north of Germany. The self-sown trees 

 of the woods in this neighbourhood are probably 

 the lineal descendants of the trees of Westan-wudu, 

 that is, of Anderida Silva ; but the ancestors of these 

 trees, for ages before Eoman foot ever trod British 

 ground, doubtless sheltered the Druidical worshipper 

 of the Heavenly Host : and the ancestors of these trees, 

 again, have probably held this ground ever since the 



* The nameless stream wliicli rises above East Meon flows 

 througli West Meon, Meon Stoke, and falls into the Southampton 

 ■water near Mean. Were its banks inhabited by the Roman 

 Meanvari and the Saxon Meonware ? Andred signified iinin- 

 liahitecl, Meon is the Hebrew and Phoenician word for habitation 

 or village. Thus, Baal-meon is the habitation of Baal, or the Sun ; 

 Britannia, from two Phoenician words signifying the land of tin, 

 included all the south of England. 



