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ment, it is covered with a deep, luxuriant foliage, looking as 
fresh and vigorous as a stripling of the forest.” 
In July, of 1838, I measured the noble elm which stands in 
front of the dwelling-house of Capt. Jaquish, about one mile 
from the centre of Newburyport. This was set out in 1713, by 
Richard Jaquish, who was born in 1683. It may, therefore, be 
one hundred and thirty-five or one hundred and forty years old. 
At the smallest place between the roots and the branches, it 
was fifteen feet in circumference, and probably over eighty feet 
high. It had many large branches, one of which was more 
than three feet in diameter. 
Mr. William Bacon, of Natick, mentions two remarkable 
elms growing in that town. ‘‘One of them is not far from 
the Old Hartford road, near South Natick Mills. Its pendent 
branches are spread equally in all directions, to the distance of 
fifty feet from the trunk, thus giving a diameter to its shade of 
about one hundred feet. It is the handsomest specimen of its 
genus which I ever saw.” 
‘The other is standing upon the south side of the road which 
leads from Natick to Wayland, near the house of Mr. Edward 
Hammond. This tree was transplanted to its present situation 
about sixty years since, under the superintendence of the gen- 
tleman who still occupies the mansion. It now, (1838,) mea- 
sures thirteen feet in circumference four feet above the ground, 
and probably twenty or more at the surface. Its shade mea- 
sures, from north to south, at noon-day, one hundred and two 
feet. It ramifies at the height of about eight or nine feet.” 
‘The great Sheffield elm had, in September, 1844, at the ground, 
a girth of twenty-two feet six inches; at two feet, eighteen feet 
six inches; at three, sixteen feet nine inches; at four, fifteen 
feet ten inches; at five, sixteen feet; at six, sixteen feet seven 
inches, above which it rapidly enlarges, and divides at ten or 
twelve feet into three large limbs, which soon subdivide. Its 
spread westward, from the centre, is forty-nine feet six inches, 
and it is nearly equal on every side ; height sixty or seventy feet. 
At Johnston, on the estate of Royal Potter, Esq., is a mag- 
nificent elm, which I measured, August 21, 1840, with the 
aid of Hon. Horace Mann. At from twelve to fifteen feet, it 
