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do justice to that, the hewers were under the necessity 

 of borrowing a 'cross-cut' saw from an Emsworth 

 timber merchant, their own, which had answered their 

 purpose, under every contingency during a long ex- 

 perience in several counties, being found too short on 

 the occasion. The diameter of the tree at its base 

 was ten feet and a half, which was reduced by the 

 process of 'setting in' to six and a half, before the 

 borrowed saw was applied to it. It contained seven 

 load of timber, and the ' lop and top' produced eleven 

 load of stack wood, and six hundred and fifty-five 

 faggots." 



Many other remarkable specimens of the beech 

 may be pointed out in the park, one especially on 

 the lawn not a hundred yards from the mansion 



some of the branches of which, crossing each other in 

 their ramifications at various angles, and at some 

 distance from their origin, have in the course of their 

 progressive growth, become so intimately united at 



