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GROWING GOLD. 



feet of solid timber were grown in eighty 

 years. — Matthews, p. 200. 



Jesse, in page one hundred and forty-six 

 of the third volume of Gleanings in Natural 

 History, states, that an oak tree, planted in 

 one thousand seven hundred and twenty, 

 measured in one thousand seven hundred and 

 ninety, at one foot from the ground, twelve 

 feet six inches in circumference." 



Hillyard, in page seventy-one of his Prac- 

 tical Farmer, states, that "some thus em- 

 ployed might live to enjoy the same gratifying 

 feeling that Mr. Coke experienced about 

 three years ago, when he, with Lady Ann 

 and four of his sons, was on board a vessel, 

 launched at Wells, which was built of oaks, 

 produced from acorns of his own planting." 



The trees described in page eighty-four 

 are known by many old people, whose united 

 testimony proves the age of them : they show 

 the natural rate of growth imperfectly, as 



