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With the help of a boy scout I measured this tree again July 



8, 1930, with results as follows: 



Circumference, 4 feet from ground: 17 feet, 9| inches. 

 1 foot from ground: 23 feet, 6 J inches, 

 at ground level, including projecting root 

 buttresses: approximately 30 feet. 



3. Hill of the Five Oaks. We may best reach this by continu- 

 ing up Payson Avenue from Dyckman Street.^ Just beyond 

 the last house on the right we enter the little plateau-like re- 

 gion where typical specimens of fair size of the following species 

 of oak may be seen : 



OS "2 



Quercus alba 



White Oak "^ 



Quercus montana 



Chestnut Oak 

 Quercus velutina 



Black Oak 

 Quercus coccinea *^ "•?!« 



Scarlet Oak 

 Quercus horealis "*" 



Red Oak 



The relative position of the .i 



different individuals may be 

 seen from the accompanying » ' 



map (Fig. 3.). From the Hill 

 of the Five Oaks we may de- 04 



cend into Shorakapkok Glen 

 by taking any one of a num- 

 ber of paths leading down the 

 hill to the left. 



4. Cock Hill. We may 

 reach this by taking the path 

 westward from the Glen, and 

 paralleling the Spuyten Duy- 

 vil Creek. The grade mounts 

 steadily upward, and a side 



path to the southward leads Figure 3. Showing location of the five 



i . u ^ r ^u 1-rc species of oak on the Hill of the Five 



us to the top of the cliff, or A ■, , ,,r, . ^ , ^ ' '-"criye 



*; ' . Oaks. 1, White Oak; 2, Chestnut Oak; 



we may contmue on the on- 3^ Black Oak; 4, Scarlet Oak; 5, Red 



ginal path to the viewpoint Oak. One inch =approximately 70 feet. 



