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large poplars growing in a row by the brook- 

 side, and carrying all away, leaving only 

 about four feet of their trunks in the ground, 

 and tearing up nearly ninety oaks and other 

 timber trees in the parks of the Hon. Mr. 

 Irby, at Hedenham Hall, and the adjoining 

 one of Ditchingham Hall, the seat of Colonel 

 Bedingfield. 



In its terrible and destructive course, which 

 I have here attempted to describe, the ash- 

 tree in question alike received its shock, the 

 effects upon which were that the entire top 

 of the tree, consisting of two large wide- 

 spreading crowns, were instantly carried away, 

 and two or three of its very large limbs, 

 branching out from about the middle of the 

 trunk and pointing towards the west, were so 

 shattered as to require removal from the 

 trunk immediately afterwards ; but the other 

 limbs resisted the fury of this tempest and 

 still remain firmly attached to the giant 

 trunk ; and both the twin crowns of this noble 



