Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . a mixture of elms and Paddock was a loyalist, left lioston in 177G, and set-tled in Nova Scotia, where his descendants still live. The Great Elm is one of the lions — perhaps thelion — of Boston Common. Still hale and strong, itstands about the centre of the green, and is supposed,from various data, to be upwards of two hundred yearsold. In 1825 it was sixty-five feet high, the circumference atthirty inches from the ground being twenty-one feet eightinches, and the spread of branches eighty-six feet. In1855 it was measur
Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . a mixture of elms and Paddock was a loyalist, left lioston in 177G, and set-tled in Nova Scotia, where his descendants still live. The Great Elm is one of the lions — perhaps thelion — of Boston Common. Still hale and strong, itstands about the centre of the green, and is supposed,from various data, to be upwards of two hundred yearsold. In 1825 it was sixty-five feet high, the circumference atthirty inches from the ground being twenty-one feet eightinches, and the spread of branches eighty-six feet. In1855 it was measured, and found to be seventy-two and ahalf feet in height; height of first branch from the ground, 76 BOSTON ANU VICIMTT. twenty-two and a half feet; girth four feet from the ground,seventeen feet; average diameter of greatest spread ofbranches, one hundred and one feet. This shows that theehn has grown considerably within the last quarter of acentury. But this colossal plant has more interesting featuresthan its age or size, though they are SUMMEn EtM. There wa? once a powrlor niMprnzino near this tree, onthe little hill at wImvc font it stands. Tliis hill. also, diir-,n?r f!u ••io!?(> of l^oston. wms the site of a British fortifica-tion, bombarded by Washington. BOSTON AND VICINITY, 77 III the war of 1812 its existence was endangered by theeneampmenl around it of American troops, destined toprotect tlie town. It lias often been exposed to injury bytlie custom of hanging and burning elfigics upon its giantbranches; and many lurbuh-nt occasions, on Election andIndependence days, liave exposed the tree to violence.
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