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' The tailed trees that I have ken were Spruce 



and Silver Firs, in the valUes in Switzerland. I faw ^^-^ L 

 feveral firs in the dock-yard in Venice above 40 '^ Junfi v^ 

 yards long; and one of 39 yards was 18 inches dia- 

 meter at the fmall end. I was told they came 

 from Switzerland. 



* In Lord Petre's old park, at Writde in EfTex, 

 in 1764, I found a Hornbeam above I2feeti and 

 the old Chefnut, (very hollow) at 3! feet, the leaft 

 part 42 f. 5 in.; at 5 feet, 46 f. i in.s and at 6 feet, 

 49 f. 5^ inches. 



* In 1759, ^^^ Chefnut in Lord Ducie's garden^ 

 at Tortworth in Glocefterfliire, was at 6 kcty (the 

 lowefl I could meafure it, as the garden-wall joins 

 to the tree on two fides) 46 f. 6 in.; it did not appear 

 hollow, but had very few and fmall boughs : as I 

 took the meafure in a heavy rain, and did not mea- 

 fure the firing till after I returned to the inn, I can- 

 not fo well anfwer for this, as the other meafurcs, 



* I omit beech, birch, maple, abele, &c. as I 

 have heard of much larger trees of thofe forts than 

 I have feen, 



' Perhaps an account of the annual increafe of 

 foinc trees will not be foreign to your purpofe.— • 



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