1814 



ARBORETUM AND FRUT1CETUM. 



PART III. 



The stems of many trees were torn off within a few feet of the ground ; and 

 others merely had the head or branches broken, without being entirely 

 detached. (Seej%. 1644.) Whole trunks, huge limbs and branches, with 

 immense masses of earth, were mingled on the ground in such a manner as to 

 give the idea of a battery of heavy artillery having been directed against the 

 trees in that part of the park. In some instances the stems exhibited " the 

 appearance of having been cut off, and in others they are rent from top to 

 bottom, or have had their giant limbs twisted off, as if they had been but so many 

 twigs." Lofty oaks were struck near their summits, and immense portions 

 of their upper limbs and branches were torn down, but not quite severed from 

 the trunk, and, with their heads resting on the ground, formed "a sort of tent of 

 foliage upwards of 30 ft. high .... Several oaiks had at least a dozen immense 

 branches torn off, while the bare and desolate-looking trunk was left standing ; 

 and, in many instances, the limbs and branches of standing'trees were twisted 



