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growa unto the Thicknefs and Height of confiderable 
Trees. rnifr// :.. >f.^a io 
It is very obfervable, Sir, and manifeftly evident, that 
many of thofe Trees of all forts have been burnt, butefpe- 
daily the Pitch or Firr Trees, fome quite through, and 
fome all on a fide ^ fome have been found chopp d and 
iqaared, fome bored through, otherfome half Riven with 
great Wooden Wedges and Stones in them, and bi'oken^ 
Ax-headSj fomewhatlike Sacrificing Axes in (hape, and all 
this in fach places, and at fuch depths as could never be 
opened from the Deftruftion of this Foreft, until the time 
of the drainage. Near a great Root in the Parilh of Hat- 
fields was found 8 or 9 'Goins of fome of t\\Q Roman Empe- 
rors,but exceedingly confumed and defaced with time,and it 
is very obfervable^that upon the confines of this low Coun- 
try between Burnwgham and Brumby in Lincolnjhire^ are 
feveral great Hills of loofe Sand, which as they are yearly 
worn and blown away with the Sand, are difcovered un- 
der them many Roots of great Firrs or Pitch Trees, with 
the ImprelTes of the Ax as frefli upon them, as if they had 
but been cut down a few Weeks, which I have feveral 
times with pleafure taken notice of, as I have rid that way. 
Hazle Nuts and Acorns have frequently been found at the 
bottom of theSoilof thofeLevels andMores,andFirr or Pitch 
Tree Apples or Cones in great quantities by whole Bufhels 
together. And at the very bottom of anew River or Drain, 
that the Drainers cut (almoft 100 yards wide, and 4 or 5 
miles long, at the charge of above 30000 /. befides the great 
Skiice at the end thereof, which coft near 30000 /. more) 
were found old Trees fquared and cut. Rails, Stoups, Bars 
old Links of Chains, Horfe-heads, an old Ax fomewhat 
like a Battle Ax, two or three Coins of the Emperor Vefpa- 
tiaf7^ one of which I have feen in the hands of Mr Corfte- 
lius Lee oi Hatfieldy with the Emperors head on the one 
fidc^ and a Spread Eagle on the other, but that which if 
more obfervable isy that the very ground at the bottom of 
the 
