1814 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART ITI. 
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The stems of many trees were torn off within a few feet of the ground; and 
others merely had the head or branches broken, without being entirely 
detached. (See fig. 1644.) Whole trunks, huge limbs and branches, with 
immense masses of earth, were mingled on the ground in such a manner as to 
give the idea of a battery of heavy artillery having been directed against the 
trees in that part of the park. In some instances the stems exhibited “ the 
appearance of having been cut off, and in others they are rent from top to 
bottom, or have had their giant limbs twisted off, as if they had been but so many 
twigs.” Lofty oaks were struck near their summits, and immense portions 
of their upper limbs and branches were torn down, but not quite severed from 
the trunk, and, with their heads resting on the ground, formed “a sort of tent of 
foliage upwards of 30 ft. high . . . . Several oaks had at least a dozen immense 
branches torn off, while the bare and desolate-looking trunk was left standing ; 
and, in many instances, the limbs and branches of standing trees were twisted. 
