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nay, if there be only some huge hedge bank in a narrow 
lane, with overhanging majestic oak trees, or, if there be on 
some great eminence an old ruin, which was once our fore- 
fathers’ boast and defence, but is rapidly falling into decay, 
embosomed in thickets and forests, in such places as these 
may we expect to behold the Ferns in all their loveliness 
and grandeur. 
