180 Dimemions of American Trees. 



high stony laiid, is apparently sound, and will probably 

 become a great tree. 



On an island in the Ohio, 13 miles above Marietta, 

 grew a tree, the stump of which was standing in 1798,. 

 12 or 15 feet high and hollow; the circumference was 

 about 60 feet, the shell 2 or 3 inches thick, diameter 

 inside upwards of 18 feet. 



An apple tree is now (1807) growing in Upper Dar- 

 by Delaware county, Pennsylvania, which I measured 

 in 1803, and found it 10 feet 4 inches in circumference, 

 sound, branches thrifty and top large. 



In Ridley in the same county, a red oak was cut in 

 1795, 6 feet in diameter was then very thriving. 



A friend of mine caused a white pine to be felled in 

 Luzerne county Pennsylvania, which was only 14 inch- 

 es diameter, but 120 feet to the first branch ; the remain- 

 der was 12 feet long. 



A chesnut sapling in Chester county Pennsylvania, 

 made nine rail cuts of 11 feet each, the butt cut, made 

 10 rails, the last cut made one. 



In relieving the garrison of Oswego, (I believe in the 

 war of 1755) came in one birch canoe 45 feet in length, 

 and 7 in breadth. 



A poplar grew near the Virginia head of Roanoke 

 river, 39 feet round, 4 feet from the ground, apparently 

 sound and about 40 feet to the forks : my informant 

 crossed a river in Maryland in a canoe or scow made 

 of a linn tree,^ in it were 7 men and 4 horses, and he 

 supposed it would have carried double the number. 



^ Tilia Americana Lin, 



