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was sixty feet high, twenty feet in girth at the 

 root, and fifteen feet eight inches in girth at three 

 and a half feet above the ground. Its trunk was 

 richly mantled with Ivy. In 1767 there was a 

 Wych-Elm by Stratton Church, which measured at 

 four feet above the ground twenty-nine feet six 

 inches. This tree was hollow. Another, by Bradley 

 Church, in Suffolk, was twenty-five feet five and a 

 half inches in girth at five feet above the roots. A 

 Scotch Elm in the parish of Roxburgh in Teviot- 

 dale, called the Trysting Tree, was, when measured 

 in 1796, found to be thirty feet in girth! The 

 ruins of this tree were still existing when Sir T. D. 

 Lauder wrote in 1834. An Elm at Checquers, in 

 Buckinghamshire, described and figured by Mr. 

 Strutt, was said to have been planted by King 

 Stephen. In 1834, merely a hollow shell, its stem 

 measured thirty- one feet in circumference; yet 

 from it forked two large limbs that subdivided into 

 a number of branches bearing l a large head of 

 foliage.' Dr. Plot also gave an account of a 

 Wych-Elm in Staffordshire, which was fifty-one 

 feet in girth at the butt end ; and the famous 

 Crawley Elm (also figured and described by Mr. 



