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Plymouth Haven, and other adjoining places. This learned anti- 
quary has enumerated many parts of England, where subterranean 
trees have been discovered. 
Childrey relates, that about two miles eastward from St. Michael’s 
Mount, at low water, they cast aside the sand on the shore, and dig 
up turfs that are full of the roots of trees ; and on some of these they 
have found nuts*. The tinners, he also says, do many times dig up 
whole and huge timber trees, which they think were overthrown, and 
have lain buried in the earth ever since the floodf . 
Childrey also states, that in divers places, in the low grounds 
and champaign fields of the island of Anglesey, the inhabitants do 
every day find, and dig out of the earth, the bodies of huge trees, 
with their roots ; and fir trees of a wonderful bigness and length : 
which trees, in the opinion of Hugh Lloyd, were such as were cut 
down by the Romans in their time ; because Tacitus saith, the 
Romans, when they had conquered this island, caused all their 
woods to be cut down, and utterly destroyed^. But from this 
opinion, as some are found with their roots on, Childrey, with pro- 
priety, dissents. He remarks, that there are also, on the shores of 
Cumberland, trees discovered by the winds at low water, which are 
else covered over with sand. And it is reported, he says, by the 
people dwelling thereabouts, that they dig up trees without boughs, 
out of the ground in the mossy places of this shire ; and that, by the 
direction of the deAv in summer; for they observe, that the deAV 
never stands upon that ground under which they lie§. 
This author, I believe, on the authority of Giraldus Cambrensis, 
states, that at the time when Henry H. made his abode in Ireland, 
were extraordinary violent and lasting storms of wind and weather ; 
so that the sandy shore on the coast of this shire (Pembrokeshire) 
* Britannia Baconica, by J. Childrey, 1661, p. 10. f Ibid. p. 6. 
t Ibid. p. 15. § Ibid. p. 171. 
