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years, the ftool of which may now be feen clofe to 
the high road. 
The produdion of nature in this vaft tradl of 
woods is fo plain, that it would be abfurd to ufe 
arguments to defend it; nor fliall I bring examples 
of it from other countries, which might be had : I 
Hiall only take notice, with Dr. Ducarel, that in the 
ancient forefts of Kent , which lay to the fouth of 
it, adjoining to Suffex and Surry, there remain 
large old chefnut flubs or brocks, now almoft worn 
out, and peridied, which are left by the woodmen 
as termini or boundaries, either of pariflies or of 
private property ; which is the univcrfai cuflom every 
where made ufe of to didinguifli the wood of dif- 
ferent owners, and are never cut down or altered; 
fo that they mufl have flood facred to this ufe, from 
the firfl introdudfion of private property into this 
ifland ; and were no doubt even then of confde- 
rable age, by their being made choice of for this 
ufe, in preference to any others. 
But to return to the neighbourhood of Milton. — 
The manor of Norwood, within that parilh, is called, 
in the highcfl records we are acquainted with, Nor- 
wood-Cheflney, Chaflney, and Caflney, no doubt 
from the great plenty of chefnut within its bounds, 
even in thofe early times. Nor is this a hngular in- 
flance of any place in England being named from 
the chefnut tree ; Chefliunt, in Suffolk ; and Chefliunt, 
in Hertfordfhire, having both their names from the 
plenty of chefnuts near them : the lafl of thefe 
places. Chancy tells us, feems in old time to have 
abounded with them ; and that mofl of the ancient 
houfes in that vill were built of them; and in the ve- 
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