iJO GROWING GOLD. 



is a full grown specimen. It must, however, 

 be supposed to have had a long pine-like 

 stem, from sixty to seventy feet high at least, 

 perhaps something more, because the history 

 of all the large oaks on record, shows a great 

 length of stem, and that they tapered very 

 gradually. Now the girth, at the base of the 

 tree alluded to, is thirty-eight inches, therefore 

 it would not, at the end of forty-five feet, be 

 reduced to half, or nineteen inches : taking 

 the dimensions at this rate, the girth, in the 

 middle, is twenty-eight inches, which makes 

 the contents two hundred and forty-five feet 

 of solid timber, grown in seventy years ; this 

 exceeds Mr. Withers's tree. 



Averaging the rate of growth of these two 

 trees, their contents may be taken at two 

 hundred feet each, say in eighty years. 



Were the testimony of these two gentlemen 

 wholly unsupported, still, as professional cul- 

 tivators of timber, they would be entitled to 

 some credit. Nevertheless, they clearly prove 



