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church* ; as alfo the wood to the eastward of the 
great road to Canterbury, immediately after you 
leave the town of Newington. 
I fpent very near a whole day in the examination 
of thefc woods ; but I would more particularly re- 
fer to the two chefnut plantations above fpecified, 
as they were juft then fhooting from the ftools, 
when I took this very minute view of them. 
1 have already faid, that I am willing to leave the 
point in controverfy, upon what hath been advanced 
on the one fide, and on the other. 
I will only beg leave to ftate a fingle obfervation, 
together with what Teems to be an inference that is 
fairly deducible from it, and which is applicable to 
any difputes, with regard to trees being of native 
growth, or otherwife. 
I believe I may fay, that I have been* almoft 
in every corner of the twelve Welfh counties ; and 
never faw a beech tree in any of them, which had 
the leaft pretence to be indigenous. 
I will fuppofe, however, that a wood of any 
given number of acres, with beech in it, was found 
in the central part of the principality ; and that thefc 
trees were not planted in rows (as at Newington 
and Sittingborne) ; but difperfed, as happens in other 
indigenous woods. 
Could it poffibly be contended, that fuch beech 
trees had not been introduced by fome planter j 
notwithftanding it might be proved to be a wood 
of great antiquity ? 
^ I think, I can depend upon my memory fo far, as to fay 
that the chefnuts I have alluded to, are at the North Eaft of the 
church j but at all events, they are very near to it. 
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