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OQG could trace tlie circumference.' "■ Som.b six or seven 

 years ago/ our correspondent continues, ' I measured the 

 circumference, and made it to be about fifteen yards — 

 fourteen yards would be within the mark/ Last year, we 

 learn from Mr. Rooke, this marvellous tree bore — on what 

 were once the suckers, but are now large limbs or trees — 

 an abundance of fruit. — Ed. 



In a glade of Hainhault Forest in Essex, about 

 a mile from Barkingside, stands an Oak, which 

 has been known through many centuries, by the 

 name of Fairlop. The tradition of the country 

 traces it half way up the Christian era. It is still 

 a noble tree, though it has now suffered greatly 

 from the depredations of time. About a yard 

 from the ground, where its rough fluted stem is 

 thirty-six feet in circumference, it divides into 

 eleven vast arms, yet not in the horizontal manner 

 of an Oak, but rather in that of a Beech. 

 Beneath its shade, which overspreads an area of 

 three hundred feet in circuit, an annual fair has 

 long been held on the 2nd of July, and no booth 

 is suffered to be erected beyond the extent of 

 its boughs. But as their extremities are now 

 become sapless, and age is yearly curtailing their 



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