[63]. [On the stain’d turf their wrecks are pil’d,] Bark-ranges.
[64]. [In smouldering heaps, &c.] Making charcoal.
[65]. [From blacken’d brakes,] Burning the furze-brakes.—Goss.—Bailey’s Dictionary.
[66]. [Yon Wretch] Surveyor or overlooker.
[67]. [Valley! where Marebrook, all unveil’d,] This Valley nearly bisected the Forest in beautifully varied windings, though without trees of any kind on its sides, or on the verge of its little stream, Marebrook, the course of which was remarkably flexuous; but is now actually turned down the straight fence-ditch.
[68]. [And knights and dames, and dwarfs portray’d, &c.] Needwood Forest, p. 16.
[69]. [But for the bee bird’s gaudy plume, &c.] See Needwood Forest, p. 16.
[70]. [Manuel.] The Forest earth-stopper in the hunting days of the author.
[71]. [You fox-gloves, &c.] See Digitalis—Loves of the plants, p. 78.
“The effect of this plant (the fresh leaves of which may be had at all seasons of the year) in that kind of Dropsy which is termed anasarca is truly astonishing.”