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length ; it has four or five large branches, and may 

 contain about eight loads of timber, A lower limb 

 or two has been mutilated, yet the tree is at pre- 

 fcnt found, but feems nearly at its bed. 



The three inftances of well-grown oaks before 

 ftatcd are enough to Ihew the advantage accruing 

 to their owners, and the community in general, 

 by refraining from cutting trees whilft thriving. 

 Thofe who would feek for more, and are within 

 reafonable diftance, I would refer to Longleat; 

 where there are many objefls of this kind, of fuf- 

 ficient grandeur to excite their emulation. May 

 the noble pofleflbr long enjoy the pleafure of fetting 

 fuch an example of forbearance ; and may his 

 Lordfhip leave it in charge with his dcfcendants, to 

 watch over the oaks he has brought to fuch perfec- 

 tion, and convert them to naval purpofes on the firft 

 apparent indication of decay ; by no means fuffering 

 fuch valuable productions to moulder away in burly 

 deformity, millennial monuments of their owner's 

 folly, from generation to generation hereafter I 



Of fuch, there are too many at this time ex- 

 tant i the Cawthorp Oak, though a magnificent 

 ruin, with the Grc^ndale Oak delineated in Hun- 

 ter's edition of Evelyn's Sylva, and Bull-oaks, in 



various 



