the fame height from the ground, havmg gained 

 thirty-fix inches in twenty-four years, /. e. an inch 

 and a half annual increafe. The amount of the 

 contents, in the fmall compafs between the branches 

 and the ground, is amazing, for eight feet by 40 ^ 

 inches girt is equal to 100 feet, or two tons and 

 a half of round timber. The upper part of the 

 fliaft and the remaining branches are large, fo that 

 I cannot eftimate it at lefs in the whole than fix tons j 

 but it is not of half the value as if the contents 

 had been in one continued Ihaft. This ftick, though 

 now forming a new and not ungraceful head, muft, 

 upon the principle before laid down, be fallen within 

 thefe twenty years, or it will rot internally by wet 



admitted through the flumps of the branches. 



No perfon having yet anticipated what may be 

 further faid cfn this fubjed:, I fhall proceed to lay all 

 the plain fads I am mailer of before the Society, 

 and conclude with obfervations, reful ting from fuch 

 growths as have been particularly noticed by 

 myfelf. 



In 1738, an avenue of above feventy elms was 

 planted in double ranks by my predeceflbr, in the 

 front of this houfe, the fummits of their branches 

 are at prefent fixty feet or upwards. Thofe in the 



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