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drefSng their meat to eaf. For this Reafon, there are 
an infinite number of Walnut-tres planted in the middle 
of the Plough'd-Iands,in fuch fort, that afar off one would 
take'thefe Lands for Woods of Walnut-trees. 
The want of thefe Trees in this Country obliges the 
Inhabitants to cultivate them, and they take care to nou- 
rifh them in a particular places, as in a fort of Nurfery, in 
order to plant them afrelh when they die, whether it be 
of Age ("which is rare) or whether they decay, or that 
they are feird,for the Wood to work with. 
The laft Autumn^ I being gone to fee one of my Kinf- 
men, who was at his Countrey houfe, two Leagues from 
Sellesin Berrj/, in the Parifhot i^, as I walked in anOr« 
chard looking upon fome Plants, near a place where they 
bred up a vaft number of young Walnut-trees, I perceiv'd 
in the middle,a fort of Leaff or foliagejwhich I had never 
taken notice of before. I went thither forthwith (with 
much eagernefs) and having examined it.asJ knew not the 
fubftance of this Leaf, I tafted it. The tafte, fmell^ wood 
and figure of the Tree, perfwaded me to believe that it 
-was a Walnut'tree, and I concluded that this was one, 
tho I did not remember that I had ever read, or heard 
of any fort like this. 
This Tree is very young,and did never yet bear any Fruit, 
perhaps, becaufe it may be (/V a manmr) choak'd up,and 
that there is neither air nor nourifhment enough, by rea- 
Ton of the great number of other Walnut-trees, which 
grov7 round about it. It is near fix foot high, 
and two inches Diameter at the bottom. 'Tis" a- 
domed at the top with many branches, and fas the 
Country people faid) was about eight or nine years old, 
and that they had always found itsLeaves like thofe which 
I faw. 
I ctit off a little Branch of it, but having no Paper or 
Book v/ith me, I cou*d not preferve the Leaves fo well 
as I wiihy. 
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