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iylng Co thick upon, or near one another, that in many 
places I could ftep from one to another. And there is 
great reafon to think, that not only the Marlhes, which 
are now over-flown (which are about iooo Acres) are 
covered underneath with thofe Subterraneous Trees, but 
alfo all the Marfties along by the River fide, for feveral 
Miles : For we difcover thefe Trees all along the 
Thames fide Gver againd Rainbow , Wemtington , Purfleet , 
and other places: And in the Breach that happened at 
WeftThorrock about 21 Years ago, they were wafhed 
out in as great Numbers (as 1 have been in form’d ) and 
of the fame kind of Wood, as thofe found lately in Da- 
genham and Havering Levels. 
Thefe laft mentioned Trees are of different fizes 5 fome 
above a Foot Diameter, fome lefs. As I was rowed in 
a Boat along the Channel, I met with two of the lefler 
fort, (landing upright, in the fame pofture in which they 
grew j their Tops juft above Low-Water, and their 
Bottoms (at lead the bottom of the Channel) at 16 Feet 
depth. We endeavoured, to draw them out, but could 
not do it with all our Strength. They feemed to be 
.about 2 Inches Diameter in their Trunk, had fome of 
their Boughs on, were dead, and in all likelyhood, be- 
ing young and light, efcaped the force of what threw 
the other more large, and unweildy ones down. 
Mod of the Trees, that I met with, had their Roots 
on, and many of them their Boughs , and fome a part of 
their- Park* There was only one that I perceived had 
any ..figns of the Jx, and r's Bead had been lopped 
off. 
As I pa fled the Channel which the Water had torn 
up, 1 could fee all along the Shores vaft Numbers of 
the Stumps of thofe Subterraneous Trees, remaining in 
the verty fame podure in which they grew, with their 
Roots running fome down, fome branching and fpread- 
ing about in the Earth, as Trees growing in the Earth 
com- 
