V. ' Extra^s of two Letters from the Reheveni 
Mr Abraham de la PrymCj P. B. S. to the Pub* 
lijher^ concerning Subtenaneom Trees ^ the Bi^ 
tings of Ma^ DogSy&cc. 
Thorn^ March i^. ijoi, 
Since I writ laft unto you, I have had the good fdr« 
_ tune to get two or three very confiderable ne7/ 
Informations about the great Fir-trees that formerly 
grew in thefe Levels, which I thought not unworthy of 
communicaring unto you. Being at Hatfield tho other 
day, I was told by feveral Gentlemen, that about 20 years 
ago dy*d one Saumlerfou of that Tqwo, aged near 80 
years, whofe Father, much of the fame age, did frequent- 
ly aflure him, and other Gentlemen that were curious in 
the matter, that he could very' well remember many hun- 
dreds of great Fir-Trees, ftanding one here and another 
there, in a languifhing decaying condition, half as high 
as Houfes, and fome higher, whofe tops were all dead^, 
yet their Boughs and Branches always green and flourifh- 
ing, growing all of them in thefe Levels: And JJmHat- 
fidd oi Hdtfield^ Efq^ Councellor at Law, who is. not above 
40 years of age, has by him a large T wig, that his Father 
pluck'd off from the Sprout .of a green and flourifliing 
Shrub of Fir that grew from.the great Root of one of the 
fame kind in thefe Commons. And an old man of Crml 
tells me, that he has heard his Father fay, that he could 
remember multitudes of Shrubs and fmaU Fir-Trees grow* 
ing here while this Counrry was a Cliace, and vv^hile the 
Vert was preferv'd, before the Drainage. And. laftly, in 
many old Charters that 1 have feen of the Pious Roger^ 
Me'mhraj^ Lord of Axhofm, vv^ho lived in the year i zgo. 
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