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No. 5. Oaks tranfplanted three or four feet high 

 from a nurfery in 1764 into a good lightifh foil, 

 dug two fpades deep, well cleaned, the trees planted 

 pretty thick, are become very tall, and meafure at 

 this time from eighteen inches to two feet round, at 

 about five feet from the ground. 



No. 6. Some of the fame oaks left in the original 

 nurfery, are from eighteen inches to two feet four 

 inches in circumference. 



No. 7. Some of the fame, planted in an upland 

 pafture (the foil clay) in 1769, when ten or eleven 

 feet high, are now from eighteen inches to two 

 feet round. 



No. 8. A particular timber oak meafured in 

 1768 — feven feet eight inches, 

 177 1 — eight feet. 

 1790 — ten feet three inches. 



No. 9. I have a fmall piece of ground litdc 

 more than half an acre, and n worth about eight fhil- 

 lings a year planted in 1764 with various kinds of 

 firs, intermixed with young oaks. The firs have 

 been felled by degrees for rails, joifts, fpars, and 

 other ufes, to the value of twenty-five pounds, and 

 have left a grove of healthy and promifing oaks. 



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