AND ROBERT MARSI1AM. 267 



told you before now, that a Chestnut which i raised from the 

 nut, measures Timber at 55 f. high, & is a very handsome 

 Tree. I wish i could view your Beech of 74 feet, & your 

 pleasing outlet: alas! all round me is as flat as round Thor- 

 ney. I am, with true esteem, my dear Sir, your most humble, 



& obliged servant, 



K: MARSHAM. 



Ld StawelTs bird must be a great curiosity. Mar. 4. 



P.S. In 1748 i enclosed above 20 acres of my Waste, & 

 planted it. The poorest Land with Scotch Firs, & the best 

 with Beeches, & another part chiefly with Oaks. I wish i 

 could walk with you about this Wood, as i believe you would 

 find more variety than you expected. One part of the Beech 

 are tall Grove, & near that they are short and spreading. The 

 Oaks also are part tall & part pollards &c. Although i walk 

 in it most days, yet i am never weary of it ; but when alone 

 can look, & admire the different beauties of y e different shapes 

 of y e trees. One Beech already extends its Branches ten 

 yards from the trunk. I have a Lingstack in it for rest & 

 shelter, (not half so pretty as your Hermitage), but it takes 

 the Cathedral of Norwich & 2 Country Churches into view. 

 Mar. 5. i have just heard a Ringdove coo, & seen a Haw- 

 thorn 1. my first Crocus F. was Feb. 10. 



[This letter is endorsed by White : " Did you see any beeches in 

 Italy? Lombardy Poplars? Chestnuts? Clapham Common." Me- 

 moranda of his answer, which is missing, as will be seen by Marsham's 

 reply. T. S.] 



body of S* Edmund, the King of the East Angles, on its transportation 

 from the scene of his murder to the place of his sepulture at Bury St. 

 Edmunds in the year 870. T. B.] 



