£ 8, 1 



taken 250 years to make its prefent bulk of 176 

 inches: and my dak of 198 years old has, from 

 1760, increafed only il\ inches in 18 years: which 

 proportion would take 117,5 y^^''^ to make 195 

 inches: and the oak by Bentley, according to the 

 laft 19 years increafe, would take above 15JOO 

 years to make 408 inches, the prefent circumfe- 

 rence of the tree. 



* If you think any of thefe meafures will afford 

 entertainment to the Society at Bath, you have my 

 leave to offer this letter to them; which will fhew 

 at lead that I have pleafure in obeying your com- 

 mands. ' 



' I am, with great refpefl, 

 * Your moil humble and obedient fervant, 



R, MARSHAM/ 



* Thomas Beevor, Efq,' 



P, S, I have put dates to all the meafures, that 

 if your curiofity ihould lead you to meafure any of 

 the trees, you may know what progrefs they make 

 in a certain time/ 



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