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Anah/ira^cf a Letter from the rPorj^Apful ]o\m E- 
velyn Efq; fent to one of the Secretaries of the 
R. J^ociety concerning the dammage done to his Ozt- 
dens bj the preceding Winter. 
S IB, 
Ifliould be altogether inexcufable for not having been to 
wait upon the Society of late, if my health had permit- 
ted, with fome other unexpe(3:ed occafions ( before I re- 
mold from Lo?id.) which I could not decently avoid : This 
was I allure you, a fenfible Affli<9:ion to me, and now 1 am 
come into the Country, have beheld the havock which a 
rude feafon has made in my poor Gardens, and received your 
Letter, wherem you acquaint me that the Socieiy expects 
an Account of my fufFerings, I muft begin with the Poet, 
■ Jnhes reno'vare dolorem : In a word, the paft Winter has 
been fo fevere in my Territories,and where it could expugne 
the more defenfible, andfuchas wereinclofed, ithasravagd 
all that lay open? and were abroad, without any mercy. 
As to Timber Trees. I have not many here of any conn- 
derable age or ftature, except a few £/?5^^, which (having been 
decaying many years} one cannot well find to havereceivd 
any frem wounds diftinguifhable from old cracks and hoUow- 
neffes ; and indeed I am told by divers, that Elms have not 
fufler d, as the great Oaks have done ; nor do I find amongft 
innumerable of that Species (Elrm) which 1 have planted, 
and that are now about 2 y and 3 o years ftanding, any of them 
touch'd: The fame I obferve of Limcs^ fVaU-nuts, Jjh-. Beuh^ 
Horn-heams^Btrcb^cheJ nut and Other forefters : But as I faidmine 
are young comparatively , and yet one would think , f^^^^f 
fhould lefs prote£t them, be aufe more tender : fo as it feems 
tJie rtftmg fo much complain d of, has happn'd chiefly among 
the over-grown Trees , efpecially Oaks : my Lord iVtymouth 
made his Lamentation to me, aadfo has the Earl of Qhtjter^ 
field^ Lord Ftrrers^ Sr. William termor and Others concern'd in 
the fame Calamity, which I mention, becaufe of their di- 
ftant habitations But if rightly I remember, one of thefe 
Noble Perfons lately told me, that fince the Thaw, the 
Trees which were exceedingly fpUt, were come togethe*t 
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