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There is not perhaps in all this country fuch 

 an elm as was in the year 1 674 cut down in 

 the park of Sir Walter Bagot, in Staffordihire. 

 The particulars recorded in the family are, 

 that two men were five days in felling it ; it 

 meafured forty yards to the top in length ; the 

 ftool was fifteen yards two feet in circumfe- 

 rence j fourteen loads were broken in the fall ; 

 forty-eight loads were contained in the top ; 

 there were made out of it eighty pair of naves 

 for wheels, and 8660 feet of boards and planks. 

 It cofl at a time when labour was much lower 

 rated than it is now id. 173. for fawingj 

 The whole fubflance was computed to weigh 

 ninety-feven tons. 



If I chofe to lengthen my catalogue of 

 celebrated trees, I might produce an innu^ 

 merable hoft of fuch as have been mentioned 

 cafually by hiftorians, and travellers, in all 

 ages : as the plane-tree hanging over the 

 temple of Delphos, which Theophraftus fup- 

 pofes was as ancient as the times of Agamemnon 

 that alfo by which Socrates ufed to fwear 

 the olive-tree at Linturnum, planted by Scipio 

 Africanus the tilia of Bafil, under which the 

 German emperors ufed to dine the malus 

 medica at the monaflery of Fundi reverenced 



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