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trees, seventy-five years old, are healthy and 

 growing, although only ten or twelve feet 

 apart, thinning them is of no consequence, as 

 some will outgrow the others and become 

 large trees ; so situated, the underlings will 

 not decay until at a great age, unless under 

 some very peculiar circumstances, and but 

 little loss will be sustained by their remaining. 



The greater part of this place is surrounded 

 by a belt, and most probably the north side 

 was first planted ; there is the usual mixture 

 of trees, — beech, birch, oak, white poplar, 

 elm, ash, &c. which have been thinned without 

 judgment. On the south side the following 

 trees were measured, at eight feet from the 

 ground, but an accurate date of this part of 

 the belt could not be ascertained. 



Inches in 

 circumference. 



Oak, 



North beech 

 South ditto, 



34 



40 



34 



This proportion the oaks bear to the other 

 trees throughout. Near the north gate is a 



