178 Dimensions of American Trees, 



A white oak tree 4 feet in diameter, was felled in 

 Cumberland county Pennsylvania, which w^as about 700 

 years old. 



On Sandy Lick creek in Pennsylvania, a pine tree 

 was 12 feet in diameter, and at 12 feet from the ground, 

 divided into branches : on the south branch of Potow- 

 mack a sycamore tree was 9 feet in diameter. 



On the dividing ridge which separates the waters of 

 the Pymatung, or Shenango, from those w^hich fall into 

 the Lake Erie, in Pennsylvania, grew a white oak, which 

 at 4 feet from the ground, was 24 feet round, about 40 

 feet to the first branches: a Spanish oak of about an 

 equal size : a chesnut at 3 feet from the ground, was 

 upwards of 24 feet round. A poplar 28 feet 4 inches; 

 and a white pine about the same size ; my informant 

 could not recollect the particular spot on which the two 

 last mentioned grew. 



A wild cherry was said to grow either on the west- 

 ern waters, or those of Susquehanna, (my informant 

 could not ascertain which) by a person viewing, and 

 competent to judge, was supposed large enough to 

 make 10,000 feet inch boards, exclusive of several large 

 limbs which would cut good saw logs. 



A white pine gre^v on the Hudson or North River, 

 24 feet d inches to the limbs, and 5 feet hi diameter. 



A wliite pine was said to stand near Le Boeuf (Water- 

 ford) Pennsylvania, 30 feet in circumference. 



In Wayne county Pennsylvania, are white oaks, white 

 ash, and cherry trees, 5 feet in diameter, from 50 to 80 

 feet in length; white pine nearly 7 feet in diameter f all 

 almost clear of knots or limbs. 



