and which, reckoning ninety feet for the 

 larger branches, contained in the whole 

 1,455 feet of timber, round measure, or 

 twenty-nine loads and five feet, at fifty feet 

 to a load. 



In the vale of Gloucestershire, near the 

 turnpike road between Cheltenham and 

 Tewksbury, stands the Baddington oak, the 

 stem of whose trunk is fifty-four feet, and 

 some of its branches extend to eight yards 

 from the body of the tree. 



The famous oak, Robur Britannicum, in 

 Lord Norrey's Park, at Prescot, was com- 

 puted to be able to shelter between three 

 and four thousand men. Dr. Plot, in his 

 Oxfordshire, tells us of an oak near Clifton, 

 that spread eighty-one feet from bough-end 

 to bough-end, and shaded 560 square yards. 



In Worksop Park, the Duke of Norfolk 

 had an oak which spread almost 3,000 square 

 yards, and near 1,000 horse might stand 

 under the shade. 



I have been favoured with the particular 

 dimensions of the large oak that was felled on 

 the Gelin's estate, in the parish of Bassaley, 

 and within four miles of the town of New- 

 port, in the county ofMonmouth, in 1810, 

 as communicated by the Earl of Stamford 

 to Sir Joseph Banks, 



