WOODFORD. l6l 



pa falten, round about London. Besides that, donkeys 

 are used hereabouts to carry burdens. In particular, 

 bakers, who send round their men to sell bread, use 

 donkeys to carry the bread-baskets, when a large 

 basket commonly hangs, sitter, on each side of the 

 saddle. The gypsies, Tattare, who roam about this 

 country, use only donkeys instead of horses to carry their 

 children and baggage. [See also p. 347, orig.J 



The 19th April, 1748. 



In the morning I went with Mr. Warner and some 

 English gentlemen to the places which lay immediately 

 to the east of Woodford. The hedges, inclosures, houses, 

 ricks, and hay-stacks, all kinds of straw for manure in 

 the farm-yards, in a word, all their rural economy was 

 such as that we have described at Little Gaddesden in 

 Hertfordshire ; but the soil was a brick-coloured clay 

 mixed very much with Gravel and Pebblestones. Chalk 

 does not appear here. Also the land here in Essex is 

 much more affected by wet than in Hertfordshire, where 

 the ground was much drier. 



En stor Ek. A large Oak. 



Mr. Warner went out with us to-day, especially to 

 show us an oak tree, which he said was one of the 

 thickest oaks he had seen in England. We measured 

 the periphery of the trunk, stammen, four feet above 

 the ground, when we found that this oak was 30 feet round. 

 At 15 feet above the roots it divided itself into twelve large 

 branches, and each of these twelve divided itself after- 

 wards into several smaller branches. We measured its 

 width from the outermost twigs on the west [T. I. p. 354] 

 to the outermost twigs on the east, in this way, that we 

 erected at each side a perpendicular line from the ground 

 to the outermost twigs on the W. and E. sides, when we 

 found that there were just 116 feet between the two 



