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Girth at a height of 4 feet, 13 feet 2 inches: spread of 



branches, 20 yards : height, 54 feet. 

 Bole eight feet, then divides into two main branches. A very 

 handsome tree, bnt dying at the extremities. — [August 8, 1873, 

 G. C. Atkinson.) 



Ash, on the top of Belsay Craig, 800 yards S. by £-E. from 



House. Girth at a height of 8 feet,- 14 feet 7 inches (in 



1807, it was 12 feet 1 inch) : spread of branches, 22 yards: 



height, 45 feet. 



An old tree; dying fast, the bole having been gnawed by 



cattle. — (Ibid) 



Birch, at the S.W. corner of Belsay Craig Plantation. Girth at 

 a height of 1 foot, 8 feet 7 inches : spread of branches, 

 1 7 yards : height, not great. 

 Bole nine feet, then two large branches. Eight feet seven 



inches, stated above, at one foot from the ground is, however, 



too great a girth, as the trunk is even there beginning to divide. 



There are a good many fine Birches about the woods, this being 



the finest. — (Ibid.) 



Sycamore, 100 yards S. of Old Castle. Girth at a height of 



4 feet, 12 feet 8 inches: spread of branches, 27 yards: 

 height, 50 to 55 feet. 



Bole ten feet ; then a very fine healthy spreading head. — (Ibid.) 



Cupressus MACROCARPA, in the Quarries near the u Great Arch" in 

 the pleasure grounds. Girth at a height of 5 feet, 2 feet 



5 inches : spread of branches, trifling : height, 36 feet. 

 A handsome tree, in full vigour. — (Ibid.) 



Walnut, 30 yards S. of Old Castle. Girth as it rises from the 

 ground, 16 feet 1 inch: spread of branches, 29 yards: 

 height, 45 feet. 

 A splendid old tree. In 1847, a limb eight feet in girth fell 



from it ; two main limbs remain, the S. and largest of which is 



ten feet ten inches in girth. — (Ibid.) 



Araucaria imbricata, the best and N."W. of live or six fine ones 

 in the old Garden, 100 yards E. by N. of Old Castle. 



