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man's houfe, I concluded that the gardener who 

 planted, had, witli unremitted diligence, attended 

 to its improvement, till trained towards the perfec- 

 tion it at length arrived at. 



There is now (landing on a knoll, in a meadow 

 of mine, an elm which was pojfeffed of great beauty 

 likewife, though of a different kind i the bole of 

 it, which is only eight feet long, was, in 1766, ttn 

 feet and a half in circumference at three* feet 

 from the ground. Its branches formed a conoid, 

 whofe diameter at the bafe was one and twenty 

 y^ds. It continued growing in this form till the 

 memorable hurricane on Shrove -Tuefday, 178 1, 



which tore off the lower limbo, and fpoilcd the re- 

 gularity of its fhape ; thus mutilated, it weathered 

 the dorm, which blew down and broke to fhivers 

 feventy others, fome of which were four tons apiece. 

 Cruel lofs ! But why Ihould I lament ? The fame 

 ftorm that overthrew the timber, purified the air 

 from noxious vapours, and might thus preferve the 

 life of its proprietor. This tree, notwithftanding 

 its having been fo much difmembered, meafures, in 

 1790, thirteen feet fix inches in circumference, at 



• This was then the fmalleft part of the bole, and is meafured 

 from the higheft ground, it being four feet and upwards on the 

 lower fidew 



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