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Dimenfions of an Oak felled in the Tear 1758, in 

 Langley Wood, belonging to the Bijhop o^Salifbury, 

 upon the Verge of the New For eft ^ 



THIS tree flood fingly in the wood, and ex- 

 tended its mafllve branches near forty feet each 

 way. Its head was all knees and crooks, aptly 

 fuited to naval purpofes j its bole or fhaft was fhort, 

 not exceeding twenty feet in length, but was full 

 fix feet in diameter at the top, and perfectly found; 

 it was felled in an unufual manner for the preftrva- 

 tion of its crooks, which were cut off one by one, 

 whilft the tree was {landing, and lowered by tackles 

 to prevent their breaking. The two largell arms 

 were fawed off at fuch diftances from the bole, as 

 to make the mod capital firfl-rate knees; fcaf- 

 folds were then erefled, and two pit-faws being 

 braced together, the body was firfl cut acrofs half 

 through at the bottom, and then fawed down the 

 middle perpendicularly,, between the two flumps of 

 arms that had been left \ at the end of one of 

 which, flood a perpendicular bough, bigger than 

 mofl timber trees ; to prevent this being injured, a 

 bed was made of fome hundreds of faggots to catch 

 it when it fell. This half was fo weighty^ that it 

 crulhpd 4 new timber carriage to pieces, the inftant 



