-mains to be difcufs'd and enquired into is, bow all this 
comes to be thus, and whatreafons and caufes can be given 
for the fame. I know indeed, that moft men are for re- 
ferring all this to No's Flood. But then if fo,^ how comes 
it that the Trees and their Roots lye fo lovingly one near 
another, and why lengthways, from South Weft to North 
Eaft > Why fome of them Burnt ? Some Chopt? Some 
Rjven? Some Squared, fome Bored through > Why the 
Soil at the very Bottom of a great River lying in Riggand 
Fur ? and Why the Coins of Roman Emperors found in 
thofe places ? &c. 
In ftiorr, I humbly conceive, that all thofe Trees grew 
in the very places where we now find them, both in this 
Country and all others where they are found. I never 
heard any Objeftions but two, of any note made againft 
my faid Opinion herein. The firft always was. That Ca- 
far exprefsly fays that no Fir-trees in his time grew in Bri- 
tain. This I do acknowledge to be true, and is fo far from 
proving what it is brought for, that it is nothing at all to 
the purpofe. For thofe Trees that are called Firs by the 
Vulgar ( from the^r near conformity and likenefs to that 
Tree) are wellkr><5wn by all Learned Men (by theRednefs, 
the Roiinous N/sture of the Wood, the Gracil Cones hang- 
ing downward^, &c.^ to be the true Pitch-Tree, of which . 
there are fuclji great plenty in Norway^ Sweden^ and other 
Countries of tl^e North ^of which there are whole Woods 
of them at this very prefentin Scotland^ and upon a Hill at 
Wareton in Stafford(hire they grow wild to this very day. 
In an old Deed relating to this very Chace, Fir-Trees or 
BuQies are mentioned as growing here and there one, about 
9 CO years ago ^ and it is very well known, that there was 
a Tree of the very fame Wood growing upon Hatfierd 
More fide within this 30 years, which awhile after was cut 
down to make a Rail of, it being the very laft of that kind 
that was feen flonrilhing here* 
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