IN A QUARRY AT NITES-HILL. 105 



feet. The circumference, taken close by the root, as jive feet 

 seven inches and a half : In the middle of the stem four feet 

 and a half; and at the top or fracture three feet nine inches. 



In the immediate neighbourhood of the above tree, and in 

 the same rock, there are four converging branches, which have 

 once been united ; three of w hich penetrate the rock in diffe- 

 rent directions, and the fourth runs along its surface. They 

 are evidently of a different species, and belong, I suspect, to 

 the fragment of another stem which was found some time ago 

 near the same spot. The species to which they belong is well 

 known among this class of petrifactions, and occurs in some of 

 the neighbouring quarries. The length of the exposed branch, 

 from the fracture to the point of division, is 15 inches ; the as- 

 cending branch is 26 inches, and the other is 35. 



Description of the Figures, Plate IX. 



Figs. 1, 2, 3, are different views of that part of the tree 

 which has been detached from the rock, and which is now 

 at Househill. 



Fig. 4. represents that part of the quarry in which the remain- 

 der of the tree is still lodged. 



Fig. 5. represents four converging branches of a different spe- 

 cies of tree, found near the former. 



Fig. 6. is a section of a trunk found near the above branches, 

 and supposed of the same species. 



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