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finding fome crannies in it, rofe twice again 

 through it ; and formed a third, and a fourth 

 confiderable ftem, each at the diftance of about 

 three yards from it's neighbour. The fourth 

 of thefe ftems fhot a branch again along the 

 fummit of the wall, and in clofe contact with 

 it j forming a fifth ftem in the fame manner, 

 that the parent-tree had formed the fecond. 

 This laft ftem is again making an effort on 

 the wall to extend this curious mode of vege- 

 tation ftill farther. In a great ftorm, which 

 happened in february 1781, a part of the 

 wall was blown down, and thofe two ftems 

 with it, which were neareft the parent-tree. 

 Each of thefe ftems was about four, or five 

 feet in diameter -, and the timber of them was 

 fold for thirty fhillings ; which (hews their 

 bulk was not trifling. We feldom meet with 

 an inftance of fo intimate a connection between 

 an oak-tree and a ftone wall. 



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