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LETTER II.

In the court of Norton farmhouse, a manor farm to the northwest of the village, on the white malms, stood within these twenty

Wych Elm

years a broad-leaved elm, or wych hazel, ulmus folio latissimo scabro of Ray, which, though it had lost a considerable leading bough in the great storm in the year 1703, equal to a moderate tree, yet,