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Marsham to be the biggest in this island, at seven feet 
from the ground, measures in circumference thirty-four 
feet. It has in old times lost several of its boughs, and is 
tending to decay. Mr. Marsham computes, that at four- 
'^HE GRINDSTONE OAK, IN THE ROLT FOREST. 
teen feet length this oak contains one thousand feet of 
timber/ 
It has been the received opinion that trees grow in 
^ Mr. Bennett, in a note to this passage, says : — " There are in the 
Holt two great oaks ; one known as the Grindstone, and the other as 
the Buck's Horn. The former, I apprehend, is the one measured by 
Mr. Marsham. At about five feet from the ground its circumference is 
fully thirty-six feet. It is now a ruin merely, and destitute altogether 
of life : a massive ruin, however, which will resist, through generations 
yet to come, the utmost force of the elements." — ^Ed. 
