Newport, in Monmouthshire ; the main trunk, 

 at ten feet long, produced 450 cubic feet ; one 

 limb, 355; one ditto, 472; one ditto, 235; one 

 ditto, 156; one ditto, 106 ; one ditto, 113 ; and 

 six other limbs, of inferior size, averaged ninety- 

 three feet each ; making the whole number 

 2426 cubic feet of sound and convertible tim- 

 ber. The bark was estimated at six tons ; but 

 as some of the heavy body-bark was stolen out 

 of the barge at Newport, the exact weight is not 

 known. Five men were twenty days stripping 

 and cutting down this tree ; and a pair of 

 sawyers were five months sawing it, without 

 losing a day, Sundays excepted. The money 

 paid for sawing, &c. only, independent of the 

 expense of carriage, was 82; and the whole 

 produce of the tree when brought to market was 

 within a trifle of 600. It was bought standing 

 for 405 ; the main trunk was nine feet and a 

 half in diameter, and, in sawing it through, a 

 stone was discovered six feet from the ground, 

 above a yard in the body of the tree, through 

 which the saw cut ; the stone was about six 

 inches in diameter, and completely shut in, but 

 round which there was not the least symptom 

 of decay. The rings in the butt were carefully 



