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“ But while,” continues Mr. Strutt, “as an entire object, these curved lines 
are sufficient to express the general peculiarity of the outline of the oak, as 
well as the larger masses of its foliage, when we come to examine the tree 
more closely, and in detail, we find that a greater variety of line must be 
adopted to display its singular proportions, so indicative of energy and bold- 
ness. The trunk and limbs are characterised by their amazing strength, and 
by their comparative shortness and crookedness; and the branches, by their 
numerous contortions and abrupt angles, and by the great variety which they 
exhibit of straight and crooked lines; and by their frequent tendency to a 
horizontal direction. These striking peculiarities are exemplified in fig. 1635.” 
“ Not unfrequently, however, the forms of the limbs and branches are en- 
tirely- concealed by the exuberancy of foliage, as is the case in the Bounds 
Park Oak, and more particularly in that magnificent living canopy —nulli 
penetrabilis astro, impervious to the day, —the Chandos Oak, at Southgate, 
[see p. 1763.], which, although not exactly a painter’s tree, is unquestionably 
unrivalled for regular beauty and plenitude of shade. The oak, also, is oc- 
casionally found to present an extremely graceful and pleasing figure, as is 
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