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Frederic Duke of Wirtemberg, and collected by the 

 late industrious Jesuit Schotti in his Appendix ad 

 lib. 2. de mirabilibus miscellaneis. Nor may here that 

 goodly birch-tree be forgotten, which growing in one 

 of the courts of the palace of Augsburgh, is so spread- 

 ing, as that the branches will cover 365 tables, even 

 as many as there are days in the year, with its shade, 

 as Tavernier tells us in his Travels. Mr. Cook, in 

 his ingenious and useful Treatise, mentions a witch- 

 elm growing within these three or four years in Sir 

 Walter Baggot's park in the county of Stafford, which 

 after two men had been five days felling, lay forty 

 yards in length ; was at the stool seventeen foot 

 diameter : It broke in the fall fourteen load of wood, 

 forty eight load in the top : Yielded eight pair of 

 naves, 8660 foot of boards and planks : It cost ten 

 pounds seventeen shillings the sawing, the whole 

 esteem'd 97 tuns : This was certainly a goodly stick. 



What other prodigious trees do at present, and of 

 late abound in that country, may be seen in Dr. Plot's 

 Natural History ; nay, some planted in the memory 

 of men of the place, that have grown to a wonderful 

 procerity : Such was an oak at Narbury, of 1 5 yards 

 in girth, which being fell'd, two men at either side 

 on horse-back could not see one another : And of an 

 ash of 8 foot diameter, the timber of which was 

 valued at 3<D/. 



ii. I am told of a very withy-tree to be seen 

 somewhere in Barkshire, which is increased to a most 

 stupendious bulk ; and of two witch-hazel-trees of 

 prodigious size, growing in Oaksey-Park, belonging 

 to Sir Edw. Pooles near Malmsbury in Wiltshire ; 

 not inferior to the largest oaks : But these for arriving 

 hastily to their acme and period, and generally not so 



