1B2 Dimensions of American Trees. 



Big Beaver, Beaver county 18 feet 6 inches round, 60 

 feet without a limb, and there, 4 feet in diameter. A 

 Spanish oak on the east side of the Ohio, a few miles 

 from the river, 29 feet 6 inches round; at Jolin Hunter's 

 in Nei\ton township, DelaA\^are county Pennsylvania, is 

 a chesnut tree 27 feet in circumference. 



I am informed that a walnut tree in Genessee, State 

 of New York, was 21 feet round, and that a sugar ma- 

 ple on the banks of the Mahonning, Mercer county 

 Pennsylvania, was 16 feet 8 inches round: that a poplar 

 between the Shenango and Neshannoch, was 21 feet 

 round. 



The foregoing contains an account of the principal 

 part of the large trees I have been able to collect on the 

 continent of America. 



I am with respect, thy friends 



John Pearson. 

 Dr. James Mease. 



P. S. To the above interesting account, the following facts 

 may be added. 



On the farm of Israel Monis, lying on the division line 

 between Montgomery county and Blocklcy township, Phila- 

 delphia county, I measui-ed a chesnut tree, 1 7 feet 6 inches 

 in circumference. 



On the farm of J. B. Smith Esq. in New Jei-sey, a poplar 

 tree is growing, tliirty three feet in circumference. 



A cypress tree, near the village of Coosawhatchie, Beaufort 

 district. South Carolina, grew a few years since, which was 

 42 feet round : 1 7 men dined inside of it, round a table. — Dr. 

 Drayton of So\itk Carolina* 



J. M. 



