176 An Account of Timber Trees likely 
® No. of English Oaks. Circumference. 
Feet. Inches. 
Oo. cdgjeanateagee pedis intesanbns g1 1 
Q crerrecteeeecneteneeeeenennarens 30 1 
OY iste neds tanita as 32 8 
26 26)93 10 
Average circumference 3 72% 
«¢ No. of Jron Oaks. Circumference, 
Feet. Inches, 
SES ie SD rae ws 31 
TN ae TLS OU ewe NO 32 10 
Mo no ee ete ee 31 9 
18 18)96 1 
Average circumference 5 4 
“ As circles are as the squares of their circumfe- 
rences, pieces of the buts, at this height a foot 
long, would be to each other about as 1877 : 4096. 
Now, supposing the Iron Oaks to carry their buts 
as much higher than the others, as their substance 
below would lead us to expect (and they seem, in 
fact, to do this or more), there must be four or five 
times as much wood in them as there is in the Eng- 
Jish Oaks. An old labourer here informs me, that 
all were planted at the same time, between forty and 
fifty years since. They stand in rows, ten feet 
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