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them to be from 30 to 45 feo! in circumferenf-e, and from 150 to 

 250 feet high. One had been cut down to make shingles of, and 

 there were made from it 143j00>) shingles, and the wastage was 

 equal to 6,000 or 8-,000 more. This tree was perfectly solid. At 

 the height of one hundred feet from the ground, v.'here the diame- 

 ter was live feet, Mr. Willijims counted the concentric circles or 

 rings, and they were one thousand and seventy-seven. At the 

 height of 120 feet, the body enlarges like shoulders, and here the 

 diameter is fourteen feet. This is far from being the largest tree. 

 Near this one is another, which is hollow at the bottom, and in 

 this hollow five men roomed all last winter. They cut one hole 

 through the tree for a window^ and another for a door, and one 

 for a fire place. Near this is what is called the monument tree, 

 now 17 feet in diameter, notwithstanding about a foot of the bark 

 and wood have been burned off. 



The curled red wood is a remarkable growth, all its timber- 

 presents curls. The concentric rings on the strait-grained red 

 wood are very narrow ; they do not average each more than the 

 twentieth of an inch, and generally, far less. Beautiful furniture 

 is made out of the curled wood polished. The juice extracl^ed 

 from the wood makes an indellible- marking ink. The bark of 

 gome of the trees is from two to ^ven inches thick. The foliage 

 resembles that of the pine generally. Mr. Williams will continue 

 to give to the Institute all acceptable information. He i% Que ©f 

 the oldest members of it, having joined in Oeleber, 1828. 



A member of the club wished to have another conversation on 

 ihe subject of the porat© disease, and to call on a member who 

 has made valuable experiments in Jersey. 



The secretary 'then proposed that as the subject fur the next 

 meeting. Adopted. 



The secretary then read the following, prepared by him, on (he 

 original agriculture of our New England Indians. 



Phil'>fopliIcal Tranf&ctione, I.ondcn, 1731. 



Botany and agriculture. To preserve specimens of plants and 

 llowers, put them between sufficient paper, and then the whole 

 between thick iron plates, very smooth, screws on the four dt>rn- 



