CBLEBEATED TREES. 187 



is a copy, courteously furnished to us by Dr. Bulley, of the 

 iuscription ou a brass plate attached to the seat. 



Quercus Magdalenensis Corruit 



Festo S. Petri a.d. MDOCLXXXIX. 



Cujus B Liguo, 



Ne Arboris 



Usque A. Collegio Pundato 



Notissim^ 



Prorsus abolescat Memoriaj 



Hanc Sellam 



Prsesidens Sociique 



Pabricandam Curaveruut 



A.D. MDCCXCI. 



Juxta Exemjplar 



A. Hicardo Paget A.M. Semicom. 



Delineatum, 



Cselavit 



Eobertus Archer Oxoniensis. — Ed. 



l^eav "Worksop grew an Oak, wliicli, in respect 

 both to its own dignity and tlie dignity of its 

 situation, deserves lionourable mention. In point 

 of grandeur few trees equalled it. It overspread 

 a space of ninety feet from tlie extremities of its 

 opposite boughs. These dimensions will produce 

 an area capable, on mathematical calculation, of 

 covering a squadron of two hundred and thirty- 



