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One afternoon, we began to observe an appearance of roads in the wood

Branches had been cut down, and openings made, where footsteps had worn

no path below These indications increased as we passed on, till, at

length, we ca the trees

in its line, as the re roots evidenced At sons of sie with ours, towards one spot Along these we indistinctly saw

several for, which seemed, with ourselves, to approach the

coht us, at last, up to a wall of yew-trees,

growing close together, and intertwining their branches so, that nothing

could be seen beyond it An opening was cut in it like a door, and all

the as triht dismounted,

and waited till I had provided for his horse's coether

It was a great space, bare of trees, and enclosed by four walls of yew,

sirew to a very

great height, and did not divide from each other till close to the top,

where their summits formed a row of conical battlements all around the

walls The space contained was a parallelograer sides of the interior, were ranged three ranks