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the Tree^ It was found fixed in the Timber with 
large iron Cramps; it feems therefore, that it had at 
firft been fallcned on the Outfide of the Tree, 
which in growing afterwards had inclofed the Horn. 
In the fame Park I faw a Tree thirteen Feet of Dia- 
meter. 
Remarks by the Tubli^er, 
T his Horn of a Deer found in the Heart of an Oak, and that 
faftened with Iron Cramps, is one of the moil remarkable 
Inilances of this kind, it being the largeft extraneous Body we have 
any-where recorded to have been thus buried, as it were, in the Wood 
of a Tree. If "Joannes Meyerus^ and Joannes Petrus Alhrechtus-, (p. 
253.) had feen this, they could not have imagined the Figures feen by 
them in Beech-trees to have been the Sport of Nature, but muft have 
contefled them to have been the Sport of an idle Hand. To the fame 
Caufe are to be aferibed thofe Figures of Crucifix’’ Virgin Mary’s^ &c. 
found in the Heart of Trees; as, for Example, the Figure of a Crucifix^ 
which I myfelf faw at Mafirkhtj in the Church of the White Ihiuns of 
the Order of St. Augufim^ faid to be found in the Heart of a Walnut- 
tree upon its being fplic with Lightning. And it being ufual in fome 
Countries to nail fmall Images of our Saviour on the Crofs, of 
Virgin Marfi^ See. to Trees by the Road-fide, in Forefts and on 
Commons ; it would be no greater a Miracle to find any of thefe 
buried in the Wood of the Tree, than it was, to find the Deer’s Horn 
fo lodged. 
Sir Hans Sloane, in his noble Mufeum^ hath a Log of Wood brought 
by y[x. Cunningham from an Ifland in the Eaji-Indies^ which, upon 
being fplit, exhibited thefe Words in Portuguefe^ DA BOA ORA. 
i. e. Det \_Deus~] bonam Horam. 
Printed for T. Woodward, at t\\z Half- Moon, 
between the Two Temple-Gates in Tleetflreet i 
and C. Davis, over-againft Grays-lnn Gate in 
Holbourn ,* Printers to the Royal So- 
ciety. M.dcc.xlii. 
