NATURAL HiSTORY OF SELBORNE. 5 
LEDER: IL: 
TO THE SAME. 
IN the court of Norton farm-house, a manor farm to the north- 
west of the village, on the white malm, stood within these twenty 
years a broad-leaved elm, or wych hazel, w/mus folio latissimo 
scabro of Ray, which, though it had lost a considerable leading 
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WYCH ELM. 
bough in the great storm in the year 1703, equal to a moderate tree, 
yet, when felled, contained eight loads of timber; and, being too 
bulky for a carriage, was sawn off at seven feet above the butt, 
where it measured near eight feet in the diameter. This elm I 
