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round, 5 feet from the ground, and supposed 60 feet to 

 the branches. A vme was seen by my informant, at 

 the same time, which he supposed was more than 2 feet 

 in diameter ; his idea then was, that he could not have 

 shouldered a piece of it 4 feet long, though he was able 

 to shoulder 4 1-2 bushels of wheat, when standing in a 

 bushel. 



In Lycoming county, Penn. the sugar maple tree is 

 found 4 feet in diameter: a cherry 5 feet from the 

 ground, 14 feet 4 inches round, and carries its thickness 

 well near 60 feet to the branches. A white oak 3 feet 

 from the ground, 15 feet round, and one which was 

 felled, was 4 feet diameter, and 70 feet without a limb ; 

 the limbs were 2 feet 6 inches in diameter. 



In Evesham, Burlington county New Jersey, gi-ew 3 

 white oak trees, the stump of one of them was 1 1 feet 

 3 inches in diameter, and 59 feet to the forks; from it 

 were made, and sold in Philadelphia 40,000 merchanta- 

 ble barrel staves; it was 300 years old: one of the 

 others 4 feet 6 inches from the ground, was upwards of 

 27 feet in circumference, and 60 feet to the first fork ; 

 the other at the same height from the ground, was up- 

 wards of 24 feet round ; the first mentioned tree was 

 said to be perfectly sound in the heart. 



In November 1791, a hollow button wood or syca- 

 more, on the south east side of the Ohio, and about 15 

 miles from Pittsburgh, at 4 feet high from the ground, 

 was 39 feet round. 



Either a chesnut or poplar, near Peach Bottom ferry 

 on the Susquehanna, was hollow, and was 1 1 feet in di- 

 iimeter within, a school was said to have been kept in it* 



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