LETTER X. 287 



Hot a little wondering among fome of our Neigh- 

 bours. It was lopped four or five years ago, 

 when the Farmer to whom it belongs gave very 

 particular order to fpare that Angular part, which 

 caufes fo many Wonderers to vifit it. The Body 

 of it is pretty bulky, and perhaps fix yards in 

 height. All the Loppings grow on the Head or 

 Crown of it, excepting thofe that are found 

 Ihooting out of two pretty large Knobbs, the 

 higheft whereof is five feet or better below the 

 Head or Crown, and the lower Knobb is fbmc- 

 what above three feet dire6tly underneath it. Out 

 of the higheft Knobb iflues a Bough full as thick 

 as my Wrift, the top of which being cut off^ 

 the remainder bows downwards in fhape of a 

 Bow, till it reaches the lower Knobb, where en- 

 tering a round hole it becomes joined with it 

 and is now all of a piece with it, as well as with 

 the higher Knobb. In flaort, this Afh-tree when 

 it is newly lopped, refembfes in fome meafure a 

 Quart Pot, the bent Bough, as defcribed, ferv- 

 ing aptly enough for the Pot's Handle. The bent 

 Bough has a fmaller Bough, of the thicknefs of 

 my Thumb, growing out of the middle of it, 

 ftrait forward for four Inches in length; and then 

 it rifes diredly upwards. I made what enquiry I 

 could among the Parifliioners, but could get no 

 information of the manner in which the Bough 



arriv- 



