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In the vicinity of Goose Pond and Clear Pond a few old trees were 
standing in clear open spaces once covered by water, but dry and good 
pasture land in September of 1897. These old trees were of large diam- 
eter at the ground, one measuring 15 feet at the surface of the ground. 
This expanded trunk contracted suddenly into a bench at a height of about 
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four feet. The larger of the two diverging trunks ascending from this 
base was not over 3% feet in diameter 8 feet above the ground. (See 
cut.) 
Many of the scattering cypress trees of this swamp and the surround- 
ing woodland were very tall and graceful, being fine representatives of 
the species. A lumberman estimated the height of several of these, by a 
rough but fairly accurate method, to be 110, 125 and 150 feet, with trunk 
diameter of 31% to 4 feet, 4 feet above the ground. 
