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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 



William Patterson obtained a chestnut log in South Merrimack, 54 feet long, 17 

 inches through at the top, S feet 8 inches at the butt, containing 174 feet of lumber, 

 board measure. 



Schuyler Aldrich, of Great Falls, cut an elm tree measuring 4 feet 8 inches in diam- 

 eter at the butt, and 3 feet 8 inches 40 feet higher up. At this point two limbs 

 branched off, each 2 feet in diameter. 



Near the Concord Railroad in Greenland, there stands an elm which measures 27 

 feet in circumference 6 feet above the ground. 



James Thatcher, of Moultonborough, cut a hemlock belonging to George Thatcher, 

 which measured 90 feet in length. It seemed to have 290 rings of growth. 



Andrew Farnum, of West Concord, cut a red oak, being 5 feet in diameter at the 

 butt, the log weighing over 3 tons. 



S. W. Vose, of Peterborough, cut a maple 3 feet in diameter, with 370 rings of 

 growth. 



W. S. Marston, of East Andover, cut 4^ cords of wood from a pasture maple. 



The Messrs. Mclntire, of Littleton, recently cut a spruce tree on Palmer brook, 

 measuring 130 feet in height, and 16 inches in diameter 65 feet from the ground. 



Amon Lord, locality not stated, cut a pine 5 feet in diameter at the butt ; 32 feet 

 higher it was 4i feet through. The entire tree furnished over 4000 feet of lumber. 



W. K. Quimby has a pine measuring 21 feet in circumference at the base. It is as 

 straight as a candle, and limbless for 100 feet above the ground. It is estimated to 

 contain 7000 feet of sound lumber. 



Two pines on land of John Batchelder, of Laconia, scaled 3500 and 3000 feet re- 

 spectively. One was 140 feet long. 



W. H. F. Staples, of Errol, hauled in a spruce log 64 feet long, measuring 1130 

 feet. Mr. Marden cut a pine on the College grant, measuring 54 inches in diameter on 

 the stump. The butt log, 28 feet long, scaled 5000 feet. 



Mayland & Woodman cut a pine on the Atkinson Academy grant, which scaled 

 12,000 feet. It was 7 feet 4 inches in diameter on the stump, and 3 feet I inch in 

 diameter 90 feet from the butt. 



Charles Gray cut on the Parker lot. North Charlestown, a pine whose stump meas- 

 ured 5 feet in diameter. The logs amounted to 115 feet in length. It was 2i feet in 

 diameter 44 feet from the ground. There were four of about the same size. 



There are five enormous elms in front of the residence of Jos. B. Walker, Concord, — 

 transplanted to their present positions no years since, — measuring, at the height of 3 

 feet from the ground, in 1871, from 9 feet 4 inches to 16 feet 10 inches in circumfer- 

 ence. In fifteen years the largest one increased 10 inches in girth. Two others, 

 during the same time, increased from 16 to 19 inches. 



In Dr. Bouton's History of Concord, it is stated that Lieut. John Walker cut a pine 

 in Northfield measuring 38 inches in diameter 60 feet from the butt. 



