’Iceland’* 
Itinerary, 
■ Vol. V. p. i 
p. 67. 
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Itinerary, Vol. V. which have a near relation to thTe 
Matters, and (hew the common Opinion in his Days of 
the caufe or the deftru&ion of Woods, the growing of 
Modes and Pools $ and that, at that time* in Water, 
the fence of tne Inhabitants was, that the under- ground 
Trees round there had formerly grown there 5 which 
becaufe they were writ by fo Inqaifitive and Learned a 
Perlon, and at fuch a diftance of Time as that 01 t ie 
! Reign of Henry the VIII. Your Lordftfp will Pardon 
me to fubjoin them in his own Words, the Language of 
^that time. 
I am , 
Tour Lordfhifs mojl Obedient, 
and moji bumble Servant, 
Hans Sloan e. 
“ In thefe Deyes in Mone wher they digge Turves be 
,<f founde greate Rootes of Trees that ferve Men for 
* c Wood. For after the Trees wer cut doune fogging 
“ Yerth and Mode overcoverid them, and now the 
cc fame Yerth parid away for Turves the old mayne 
cc Rootes appere. 
“ Likewife at Low Water about al the Chores of both 
6i Shores of Aberdein and Tomn Merioneth appere like 
a Rootes cf Trees. 
“ I faw hard by on the lift Honde a great Fenny 
*' More, owt of wich the Inhabitantes therabout digge 
t( Turfes for Fier, and by the fame Fennels a fair 
* ( LLin caw Hid LLinridde ii Miles from Stratefiur, 
“ Stratefiure is let round about with Mon anes not far 
* c didant, except on the Weft Parte, wher Dijfrin lyue 
“ is. Many Hilles therabout hath bene well woddid, 
t<: as evidently by old Rotes. apperitb, but now in' 
' gc them is almoft no Woode. 
