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ling through the clay-hole at the bottom 

 of the funnel, drops into a vessel placed to 

 receive it, and is then turned into casks 

 made of the hollowed trunk of a tree. The 

 pure limpid oil swims at top, and is in the 

 greatest request for anointing leather on ac- 

 count of its antiseptic quality. The residuum 

 is thick and sooty, and is employed for va- 

 rious common uses*." 



CHESNUT (Sweety or Spanish J. 



In respect of soil, wherever the Beech (the 

 trees are of the same genus) flourishes, the 

 Chesnut will not fail. It affects most a dry 

 loamy soil, lying on a kindly gravel or rock. 

 It is impatient of much wet ; nor does it 

 thrive on a stiff clay. In bleak exposures, 

 with a poor soil, it comes far short of the 

 Beech in point of exuberance. 



This is a timber-tree of great magnitude,^ 



* PALLAS. Flora Rossica. 



f At Finhaven, in Angus-shire, there still lies the re- 

 mains of an enormously large tree of this species, the 

 greatest circumference of whose trunk was 45 feet. In 

 the possession of George Skene, Esq. of Cariston, is an 

 engraved plate affixed to a table made of the tree, on 

 which is marked its dimensions. 



