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bottom of the trunk, from which ascended a winding 

 staircase to the top of the tree. At the top was an 

 octagonal turret to enable visitors to see the views 

 across the surrounding country. The following is 

 attached : 



1 1 . The bottom above ground in compass is 

 28 foote. 



2. The breadth of the doore is 2 foote. 



3. The compass of the turret on the top is 



34 foote. 



4. The doore in height to goe in is 6 foote 



2 inches. 



8. The height to the turret is 33 foote. 

 ii. The lights into the tree is [are] 16. 



18. The stepps to goe up is 42. 



19. The seat above the stepps six may sitt on, 



and round about roome for foureteene more. 

 All the way you goe up within the hollow tree.' 



Tooting Common. No finer Oaks and Elms are to 

 be found in the County of London than those on 

 Tooting Common. Both trees occur in large numbers, 

 are mostly of gigantic proportions, and generally speak- 

 ing are well preserved and healthy. An avenue of 

 large Elms runs right across the common and divides 

 it in two, one portion being known as Tooting Bee 

 and the other as Tooting Graveney. Several of these 

 trees girth 12 feet at a yard from the ground, others 

 by the roadside being of still larger size, with clean, 

 massive stems that contain up to 200 cubic feet of 

 timber. The Oaks are quite as good, one that we 

 taped having a girth of 13 feet at a yard from the 

 ground. 



Probably the oldest, certainly the largest, trees, 



