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are foiind in great plenty biiried 

 ^tniongft Othbr Vegetable Bodies in 

 Mdffes *, Pens, or Bogs, not only in ^Mofsls 

 ieveral Parts of England^ but likewila Jgj^ji'"® 

 in many Foreign Countries ; tvhtreinl over the 

 ftiall fhewi from Oblervations madeNorA^^ 

 upon the Places where thefe Trees are JI^J 

 digg'd up : upon the Trees therfiieives : of m 

 their Pofition in rhe Earth, a;nd Othet 

 Circumftances^ that they were lodged 

 thus by the De%e, arid have l^mherh 

 ever fince. That there are fourid gred 

 numhers of thefe Trees, and many of 

 "bery large y fb buried in fiiverai 

 IjlmAs where no Trees at all do, or 

 will, J? w grow : the Winds Being 

 fierce, and th6 Weather fb fevere^ as 

 ,not to fuffer any thing to profper or 

 ihrive beyond the height of a Shrubj^ 

 in any of all thofe Iflands, unlefs it be 

 proteded by Walls, as in Gardens; or 

 other liMe Coverture^ That the faki 

 Trees are in fbrne places found ericloftd 

 in the Stone of Quarries and of Rocks i 

 biiried amongft Marie, and other kinds 

 of Earth, as well as in this Peat or 

 Mofs-Earth. That they were origifialJy 

 lodged indifferently amongft ail fbrts 

 of Earth, 0r other Mattery which l^ajr ^ , 

 Cieat Surface of the Earth f : and 



\ that fu^&aa , 



