23 



Body of the tree, ten feet long 450 ft. 



Twelve limbs and collateral parts, contained 1850 

 Dead limbs - 126 



2426 ft. or 



48 loads and 26 ft. Quantity of bark, 65 cwt. 

 and 16 stacks of wood. 



Four men were three weeks and two days 

 in felling and stripping the tree. There were 

 85 pieces of square or hewn timber: the 

 squarers were three weeks and four days in 

 squaring it. One pair of sawyers had been 

 five months in sawing the tree, and had not 

 finished when this account was sent. (Mar. 

 6th, 1811.) 



The tree was purchased by Mr. Thomas 

 Harrison for one hundred guineas. 



Part of an oak-tree, twenty-feet in cir- 

 cumference, was drawn out of the Thames in 

 September, 1815, near the Ferry at Twick- 

 enham, with great difficulty, by twenty-four 

 horses : it is known to have laid in the river 

 one hundred and fifty years. 



The timber of the oak-tree is so well 

 known, and so justly esteemed, for a variety 

 of purposes, that it would be superfluous to 

 state the whole of them. 



In building ships of war, one great advan- 

 tage is, that it seldom splinters, which 

 caused foreigners to attribute our naval vie- 



