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cut out of a tree of immenfe girth. The 

 Cheltenham-oak alfo might be introduced, 

 which as near it's roots as you can walk, 

 exceeds twenty paces round the Cawthorpe- 

 oak likewife, which at the ground exceeded 

 twenty-fix yards the Bently-oak in Holt- 

 foreft, which at feven feet from the ground, 

 was thirty-four feet in circumference the 

 Swilcar-oak in Needwood-foreft, which, I be- 

 lieve was equal to any of them*. With an 

 innumerable lift of this kind I might fwell my 

 page : but I rejecl: all fuch trees, as have either 

 been only cafually mentioned or have had their 

 value merely afcertained by a timber-merchant's 

 rule And yet all thefe have been trees famous 

 in their day -, fome of them are ftill alive ; and 

 if I were writing a biographical hiftory of trees, 

 I mould be glad to infert them, having a 

 reverence for them all. Where one tree attains 

 this noble growth ; and makes itfelf confpi- 

 cuous, thoufands, and ten thoufands reach 

 only the ordinary fize of nature. The few 

 pages however at prefent on my hands, I 



* Many of thefe trees are mentioned by Mr. Evelin, and 

 the reft %re colle&ed from the topographical remarks of travel- 

 lers, and hiflotians. 



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