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IX. An Account of form 'Tress difcovered un- 
der-ground on the Shore at Mount’s- Bay 
in Cornwall : In a Letter from the Rev , 
Mr, William Borlafe, F. R. S. to the Rev, 
Dr, Lyttelton, Dean of Exeter. 
Reverend Sir, Ludgvan, Jan 24. 1757. 
Read Feb. io, EING an airing the other day 
* 757 ’ it) with Mrs. Borlafe, on the fands be- 
low my houfe, we perceived the fands betwixt the 
Mount and Penzance much wafhed into pits, and 
bare ftony areas, like a broken caufey. In one of 
the latter, Mrs. B. as we pafled by, thought fhe faw 
the appearance of a tree ; and, upon a review, I 
found it to be the roots of a tree, branching off from 
the trunk in all dire&dons. We made as much hade 
down to the fame place in the afternoon as we could, 
and with proper help to make a farther examination. 
I meafured and drew the remains ; and about 30 
feet to the weft found the roots of another tree, but 
without any trunk, tho’ difplayed in the fame hori- 
zontal manner as the firft. Fifty feet farther to the 
north we found the body of an oak, three feet in 
diameter, reclining to the eaft. We dug about it, 
and traced it fix feet deep under the furface ; but its 
roots were ftill deeper than we could purfue them. 
Within a few feet diftance was the body of a willow, 
one foot and a half in diameter, with the bark on ; 
and one piece of a large hazel-branch, with its bark 
H a on. 
