172 An Account of Timber Trees likely 
*¢ Spanish Chestnuts, No. Circumference. 
Feet. Inches. 
Gi. coe ee 2 31 3 
Sheik ice beet Ngan nig 
A, sinwisanasenn intone svn 24 3 
18 18) 89 9 
Average circumference 4 112 nearly.” 
N. B. Mr. Babington says, “ that there are gates 
and pales on the premises at Hillersdon, which have 
been made of the Iron Oak; and that, as far as he 
can judge, the wood appears as hard and as tough 
as that of the common oak.” 
It has always been considered that when men have 
planted oak, they have not planted for themselves 
or for their children, but for distant posterity, and 
even they could never be repaid where land bore 
any annual value: and to the planter himself, little 
pleasure could arise from trees of such very slow 
growth. But the same person who plants the Iron 
Oak may possibly live to reap some little profit as 
well as pleasure; and it is not at all uureasonable to 
suppose, his immediate successor may see it arrive 
to some degree of perfection. From what I have 
seen of the wood of this oak, and from the account 
given by Mr. Babington of the gates and pales made 
with it, there is great reason to suppose it will be 
