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fingular, It will prove directly the contrary, as he 
“ hopes to fliew with regard to the cbefniit, 6cc.”, 
In anfwer to his objeftions, and agreeable to thefe 
his forgeoing rules ; 1 ihall endeavour to prove the 
cheinut to be an indigenous tree, in this illand ; and 
ifl, Mr. Barrington fays, that he examined the 
woods near Sittingbourn himfelf j “ and on a very 
“ minute inlpedtion of them, found thofe parts which 
confid; of chefnuts, to be planted in beds or rows, 
“ about five yards diftant from each other ; nor are 
“ there any fcattering trees to introduce them, &c/’ 
In what wood or woods, he obferved thefe plan- 
tations, I mull confets, I am quite at a lofs to find, 
having never obferved this regularity in any of the 
woods 1 have been in ; and I very lately afked a per- 
fon who has lived many years in that neighbourhood, 
deals largely in timber and underwood, and is over all 
thefe woods every year, who told me he knew of 
no fuch regular plantations in any of them ; that the 
chefnut grew intermixed with other trees, as in all 
ancient woods. 
Indeed, the amazing difiance of the plants from 
each other, which Mr. Barrington mentions^ is fome- 
what extraordinary ; as the ufual cuftom now, in 
planting fets of chefnut or alh, for hop poles, is 
about (even or eight feet difiance, as has been lately 
done by John Cocking Sole, Efqj in his plantation 
of chefnuts, at Newington. 
Tne woods, called the Chefnut wo >ds, the pro- 
perty of the Earl of Aylesford, which lie in the 
parifiaesof Newington, Borden, and Bobbing, abound 
vvith thele trees, which grow promifcuouily with 
others, both from fiubs and fiools of a large fize j 
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