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and Damory's Oak, in Dorsetshire, which was sold and 

 cut up for firewood in 1755, was sixty-eight feet in cir- 

 cumference at the ground : both of these were hollow 

 trees. 



Of those still existing and remarkable for age and size, 

 the Winfarthing Oak is said to have been an old tree 

 at the time of the Conquest ; Cowper's Oak, in Northamp- 

 tonshire, is supposed to have been planted in the time 

 of William the Conqueror ; the Salcy Forest Oak, in the 

 same county, boasts a much greater age, as it is supposed 

 to have seen one thousand five hundred seasons, its trunk 

 is forty-six feet in circumference ; the Flitton Oak, in 

 Devonshire, of the sessiliflora variety, supposed to be one 

 thousand years old, is thirty-three feet in circumference 

 at one foot from the ground ; the Cowthorpe Oak, in York- 

 shire, is seventy-eight feet at the ground ; the Hemp- 

 stead Oak, in Essex, fifty-three feet, and the Merton Oak, 

 in Norfolk, sixty-three feet in circumference. In Scotland, 

 also, the remains of magnificent Oaks still exist : amongst 

 others may be particularized the Wallace Oak, at Ellerslie 

 in RenfreAvshire, amidst whose branches it is said the 

 patriot and three hundred of his followers hid themselves 

 from the English. At Lockwood, in Annandale, Dum- 

 friesshire, the ancient seat of the Johnston family, we 

 visited, about three years ago, the grove of Oaks which 

 surrounds the remains of the ancient castle, and remarked 

 one of still vigorous growth, with a circumference, a little 

 above the ground, of sixteen feet. In the same county, 

 during the tremendous hurricane of the 7th of January, 

 1839, a remarkable Oak called " the three brothers," so 

 named from the three stems or limbs of which it was com- 

 posed, was blown down, the solid contents of which were 

 found to be five hundred and sixty-one feet eight inches. 



