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long in the beams, and roofed it intirely with this 

 tiniber j and from the experience of others, toge- 

 ther with the prefent appearance of beams, rafters, 

 &c. have reafon to think that my grand- children 

 will not find fault with it. In an out-houfe 

 roofed at the fame time with elm, there are mani- 

 fcft figns of the worm already, which will in the 

 end deftroy it. But let it not be underftood, that I 

 recommend the ufe of abele under any covering 

 but thatch, which if not fuffered to gully into holes 

 will always prote6t it from wet, on which alone the 

 durability of the timber depends 5 the drippings 

 from a broken tile, flate, &c. caufe it foon to, 

 periflif 



Thefe trees are often fubjedt to warty excref- 

 cences, which, when large, imbibe moifture, ancj 

 bring on decay. Whilft the plants are young, they 

 do little injury, yet it is advifeable to root up fuch 

 at are much disfigured with them, to give room to 

 thdfe which are Healthy. I have fome of the true 

 Abele or Populus Alba, which are now forty feet 

 long in the fhaft^ and fix feet four inches in circum- 

 ference at five feet from the ground -, their exaft 

 age I do not know, but. their contents exceed two 

 tons of timber each, and I judge them to be fifty 

 years old. 



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