12 THE OAK. 



large oak-trees, exclusive of white wood and 

 ciphers, as one of the men who assisted in 

 the felling and peeling informed me. There 

 was also a fall in it in 1834-1835, by the 

 late Thomas Legh, Esq. 



On the former, and likewise on the latter 

 occasion of felling the oak timber in it, great 

 care was taken and judgment evinced by the 

 agents in preserving the stools, by leaving 

 them in a form and shape as to prevent their 

 receiving injury from the effects of wet wea- 

 ther, by which a future stock and succession 

 of saplings has been secured and is now ma- 

 king rapid progress. It contains 60a. 38p. 

 statute measure. Besides the large proportion 

 of oaks which it at present contains in a most 

 thriving and healthy condition, it abounds in 

 white-wood timber of every description, — ash, 

 alder, willow, mountain-ash, and birch, for aU 

 which timber in its earlier stages of growth 

 there is a ready sale in the neighbouring ma- 

 nufacturing districts. 



