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circumscribed, and has not room to expand its 

 vast limbs, as Nature directs. When we wish, 

 therefore, to find the most subHme sylvan cha- 

 racter — the Oak, the Elm, or the Ash in perfec- 

 tion, we must not look for it in close, thick woods, 

 but standing single, independent of all connexions, 

 as we sometimes find it in our own forests, though 

 oftener in better protected places, shooting its 

 head wildly into the clouds, and spreading its 

 arms towards every wind of heaven. 



' Tlie Oak 

 Thrives by the rude concussion of the storm. 

 Pie seems indignant ; and to feel 

 The impression of the blast with proud disdain : 

 But, deeply-earth'd, the unconscious monarch owes 

 Plis iirm stability to what he scorns ; 

 More fix'd below, the more disturb'd above.' 



There is not, perhaps, in all this country such 

 an Elm as was, in the year 1674, cut down in the 

 park of Sir Walter Bagot, in Staffordshire. The 

 particulars recorded in the family are that two 

 men were five days in felling it ; it measured forty 

 yards to the top in length ; the stool was fifteen 

 yards two feet in circumference ; fourteen loads 

 were broken in the fall ; forty-eight loads were 



