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my good friend Lord Suffield, & find it is true. Two of the 

 Trees called the Lord & the Lady were valued at 70 Guineas 

 each. In another note, he says without good authority, 

 that the Earl of Hertford* fell'd a Wych Elm in his park 

 in Lisburn (Ireland) that contained 99 tun of timber f. 

 Being known to his Lordship when abroad, i wrote to him ; 

 and his Ldp tells me, it was an Oak not Elm, that he did not 

 fell it, but it fell of itself, in a calm summer day, to his 

 sorrow. It was sound, the trunk or body was 29 feet long, 

 & 36 in circumference, which sold for 48. one piece of the 

 head for 5. 10. for Bark, and 58. for the rest of the head. 

 Tot. 12 1. As we do not know where the circ. was taken, 

 you see we are left in ignorance: if at 14 f. ^ which should 

 be, then his Ldp was abominably cheated. Hunter also men- 

 tions an ash at Leg or Leix in Queens County in Ireland 39 

 f. round near the ground, and 28 f. at six f. I try'd for an ac- 

 count of this Tree from my great neighbour the Earl of Bucks J 

 when he was Lieu*, which not receiving so early as i wished, i 

 wrote to my old friend D r Man Bp of Corke. But all i have 

 gained is, that a print of it was engraving in London. This 

 i have not seen: & a print without a scale would certainly not 

 satisfy my curiosity. Your friends Sycamore is a little larger 

 than I have seen, and his pollard Oaks are respectable. 



I observed nothing remarkable in this Winter but a greater 

 number of the red-wing Thrush than usual, & have as yet but 

 Two articles for my Indications of Spring for 92. viz. Snow- 

 drop F. Jan. 25. & yellow Butterfly this day. Your Rela- 

 tions Swifts delay was extraordinary. My Swallows left me 

 Sep. 27. but one was seen within 5 miles on y e last of Octo- 

 ber. I shall long for your account of the fern Owl in the Ph. 

 Trans., as i conclude you can give a better account of that 



* [Francis Seymour succeeded his father as Lord Conway in 1732, 

 was created Earl of Hertford in 1750, and Marquess in 1793. Died in 

 1796. A. N.] 



f [I have not been able to find Hunter's reference to this tree or to the 

 Ash presently mentioned. A. N.] 



t [John Hobart, succeeded his father as Earl of Buckinghamshire and 

 owner of Blickling in Norfolk, in 1750, Ambassador at St. Petersburgh in 

 1762, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1777, died in 1793. A. N.] 



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