Dimensions of American Trees. iBl 



In lower Chichester, Delaware county Pennsylvania, 

 a black oak tree was felled in 1790, which was 8 feet in 

 diameter. 



A Sycamore tree stands in the town of Jefferson, Ca- 

 yuga county, state of New York which is 47 1-2 feet 

 in circumference, hollow, but improved by art, having 

 one side open as a door, and is green and thrifty.* 



In the spring of 1807, a hickory tree on the banks of 

 the Ohio, 2 miles below the mouth of Kentucky river, 

 measured 16 feet 8 inches in circumference, very lofty, 

 kept its thickness well : at same time an ash on the east 

 bank of the Mississippi 17 feet round, very tall; several 

 near to it 12 feet and upwards round. 



In Vermont a white pine 6 feet in diameter 247 feet 

 in height, it was there considered as a large tree; they are 

 there said to live the longest of the forest trees, being 

 from 350 to 400 years old. 



A white pine was cut at Dunstable, New Hampshire 

 in 1736, 7 feet 8 inches in diameter. 



In 1803, a person told me he saw a white walnut tree 

 near lake Erie, only 7 and 1-2 inches in diameter, and 

 63 and 1-2 feet to the first branch. 



In the same year I measured a \\ hite oak tree in Al- 

 legheny county Pennsylvania, 15 feet 6 inches round. 

 A sycamore on the bank of the Ohio 33 feet round, and 

 sound; a sugar maple near to it 15 feet round; a w^al- 

 nut tree near Big Beaver west of Ohio, 18 feet 6 inches 

 round, 45 feet to the branches: a sycamore 19 feet 6 

 inches round ; a thorn tree in Mercer county Pennsyl- 

 vania, 5 feet round ; a white oak tree near the falls of 



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