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cumference are recorded, we may mention several speci- 

 mens at Brocket Hall, the seat of Viscount Melbourne, 

 averaging upwards of six feet in circumference at three 

 feet from the ground, forty feet in height, and with a 

 head whose diameter measures nearly seventy feet. At 

 Twizell, twenty-seven years planted, it is three feet in cir- 

 cumference at eighteen inches from the ground, and up- 

 wards of thirty feet high. 



