84 KINDS OF TREKS, 



emit a very difagreeable odour which is offeniive 

 to moft people. 



The timber of the Chefnut more nearly refem- 

 bles oak in its appearance, than that of any other 

 tree ; and next to the afh, and the Scots elm, of 

 the hard timber kinds, approaches it in value. It 

 is exceedingly durable. The roof of Weftminfter 

 Abbey, and that of the Parliament -houfe in Edin- 

 burgh, are conflruded of it. The beams, roofing, 

 c. cf many wooden houfes in Edinburgh, lately 

 pulled down, and which had flood for ages, were 

 found to be of Chefnut ; and, from the city re- 

 cords, it appears that large oaks and chefnuts for- 

 merly covered a place called the Borough -moor, 

 about two miles to the fouth-weft of the city, where 

 no trees now exift. 



Chefnut is ufed, befides, by the cabinet-maker, 

 for various purpofes. For pipes to convey water 

 under ground, it excels the elm, and perhaps e- 

 quals the oak. It is more durable than the oak 

 in the character of gate polls, and (lands next to 

 the yew and the larch in this refpecl:, or wherever 

 it is funk into the ground, and (lands wet and dry. 

 In Italy and Spain, their wine ca(ks are chiefly 

 made of it ; and it is faid to poflefs the (ingular 

 property of not (hrinking, nor tinging wines or o- 

 ther liquors put into cafks made of it. 



It is a good coppice tree ; and is very generally 

 ufed in the hop counties for poles. Chefnut (lakes, 



for 



