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avenues and public parks. The other elms, under various names, may 

 generally be traced as varieties to the stock of one or other of these — 

 U. suberosa of authors being one of the more distinct, and, though given 

 a separate place by Mr. Selby, is given so with doubt. The largest 

 recorded Wych elm trees, are, in England, that in Sir Walter Bagot's 

 Park in Staffordshire, mentioned in previous note ; in Scotland, the 

 " Trysting-tree," in Teviotdale, Roxburghshire, measured in the begin- 

 ning of the century, at four feet from the ground, thirty feet in circum- 

 ference ; and in Ireland, a tree at Bawn, about 1 20 years of age, was 

 9 feet 8 inches in diameter. 



Fossil Shells. — Letter III., page 20. 



By some oversight in the printing of the edition in " Constable's 

 Miscellany," the last sentence in the first paragraph of this letter has been 

 omitted, and the same occurs in Mr. Jenyn's edition, and in almost every 

 other, no doubt because there was no engraving contiguous. The sentence 

 is — " The curious foldings of the suture, the one into the other, the 

 alternate flutings or grooves, and the curved form of my specimen being 

 much easier expressed by the pencil than by words, I have caused it to 

 be drawn and engraved." This is of little import, but it is as well to 

 have the edition complete. In the large original quarto copy of 1789, 

 a whole plate is devoted to this fossil. In the various late editions, it 

 has been annotated upon, and first, again, by Mr. Bennet, who states 

 that it is the Ostrea carhiata (Lamark), a fossil limited and apparently 

 peculiar to the upper green sand (not the chalk), the stratum on which 

 the village of Selborne is built. (See notej Bennet's Edit, page 12.) 



Meteorology. — Letter V., page 24. 



In Mr. Bennet's edition, a continuation of the Meteorological Register is 

 added for six years — (the fourth edition, 1 789, gives it only up to January, 

 1787) — the two last years of which (1792 and 1793) the amount of rain 

 was very large, far exceeding any of the former quantities ; in the first it 

 amounted to 44-93 inches, and in the second to no less than 48-56, 

 exceeding all the previous years, except 1782-3, when it was 50-25 

 inches. The intelligent gentleman referred to in the note to the above 

 page, was Thomas Barker, of an ancient and respectable family in the 

 county of Rutland, and brother-in-law to our author. 



Bog Timber.— Letter VI., page 27, note *. 



Frera Mr. Bennet's note upon the timber of the Selborne bogs, it would 

 appear that in 1835 the supply was not exhausted, several trees having 

 been at that time dug up. In the south of Scotland the oak is the most 

 abundant tree found in the bogs, is very general, in some places ex- 

 tremely abundant, and the brushwood of our present copses frequently 

 accompany it. In the north of Scotland, again, pine-wood is commonly 

 met with and used as we before mentioned, as well for making lights to 

 " burn the water," or to spear salmon by torch'ight, for which it answers 

 admirably. 



