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NATURAL 



HISTORY 



.LETTER II. 



TO THE SAME. 



In the court of Norton farm house, a 

 manor farm to the north-west of the vil- 

 lage, on the white malms, stood within 

 these twenty years a broad-leaved ehn, or 

 wych hazelj ulmus folio latissimo scahro of 

 Ray, which, though it had lost a consi- 

 derable leading bough in the great storm 

 in the year 1703, equal to a moderate 

 tree, yet, when felled, contained eight 

 loads of timber ; and being too bulky 

 for a carriage, was sawn off at seven feet 

 above the butt, where it measured near 

 eight feet in the diameter. This elm I 

 mention to show to what a bulk planted 

 elms may attain ; as this tree must cer- 

 tainly have been such from its situation. 

 In the centre of the village, and near 

 the church, is a square piece of ground 

 surrounded by houses, and vulgarly called 



