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LETTER II. 1 



To the same. 



^ the court of Norton farm-house, a manor farm 

 to the north-west of the village, on the white 

 malm, stood within these twenty years a broad- 

 leaved elm, 2 or wych hazel, ulmus folio latissimo 

 scabro of Ray, which, though it had lost a con- 

 siderable leading bough in the great storm in the 

 year 1703, equal to a moderate tree, yet, when 

 felled, contained eight loads of timber ; and, being too bulky for 

 a carriage, was sawn off at seven feet above the butt, where it 



1 This letter may possibly be an extract from one or more real letters written 

 to Pennant. ED. 2 A wych-elm, Ulmus montana. ED. 



