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fctt inc. 



It IS in height to the firft live branch 21 6 

 From thence upwards, to where the bole 

 feflens fuddehly, is at lead an equal diftance, 21 i 



Thus far it diminifhes gradually, like the 

 rtialliv^ fliaft of a Doric column. The 

 (Continuation of the bole extends near 1 2 

 feet farther ; and by comparing it with a 

 tree at hand, it appeared to be 5 feet in 

 circumference, and at the height of 50 feet 

 from the grpund - - - 120 



Length of the bole - - 55 o 



or more. 



'^Tnc very top branches are timber, the tree ap- 

 pears to be in a growing ftate, and though tradition 

 fays it is 150 years of age, its yearly increafe is 

 little (if any 'thing) lefs than an inch, and the beft 

 judges allow 4t to contain twelve loads of timber 

 at leaft. 



N -^Fl-om thefe given premifes, I will endeavour to 

 lay down a fketch of its progrefs during the latter 

 half of its exiftence, in order to demonftrate that 

 oak-timber will pay its pofleflbr/good intereft for 

 landing till it arrives at maturity. But in fo doiiig, 

 I mud deviate from the true form of the uppei* 

 branches, (becaufe it would be difficult to calculate 



their 



