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(when it is expcfed to the Sun) the Turpentine will 
drop from it. This Wood is frequently riven into 
Laths for the Roofs of Houfes or Floors 5 and what 
is remarkable, no Worm will touch them. The 
Pales mentioned above are fold from 10 to if Shil- 
lings per hundred. We frequently find Hazle-nuts 
and Fir- Apples in Abundance; which I think is a 
plain Proof, that the Trees fell in Autumn, when 
the Fruits were at Maturity. I think Dr. Shuck- 
ford makes it plainly appear that the General 
Flood happen’d in Autumn. 
This Lady in ail Probability was overwhelmed by 
feme flrong Eddy of Water ; for fhe lay upon one 
Side bended, with her Head and Feet almoft toge- 
ther. 
It appears by the Maps of the Country, that this 
has been the Rendezvous of all the Waters from the 
South, Weft, and North Parts of the Kingdom ; as 
for Inftance, the River Dun, from Doncafler, Ro- 
therham, and Sheffield , which took in many more 
Streams 5 as the Idle , Trent , Torn , "Dare , Rother r> 
dec. &c. Then the River Trent , which runs South 
to Gainsbrough ; then to Torkfey , Newark , Notting- 
ham , Derby, Burton upon Trent , Strafford , Trent - 
ham in Staffordshire : And takes in a vaft Number of 
Rivulets : Then the Oufe, which comes from near 
Richmond , and takes in the Ure , Wharf \ BiJhop’sDike , 
Aire , Calder , and a great Number of Rivulets ; which 
are all loft in that famous Eftuary the Humber . 
It is alfo to be obferved, that here isoneMorafs 
twenty Miles round. Part in Hatfield Chace-, an- 
other ten Miles round in the fame Chace, where 
the 
