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“ There is another (lately chefnut (8), hut little 
inferior to that at Torteworth, in Writtle park, 
“ three miles to the left of Jngateflone, in Eh'ex. 
The late Lord Petre meafured this tree, and found 
it forty five feet girth, five. feet from the ground; 
“ this vaft trunk fupports a lofty head, which, at a 
“ difcance, affords a noble profpedt, and well de- 
“ ferves to be furveyed by all that admire fuch 
“ wonderful produ6lions.” At Little Wymondley, 
near Hitchin, in Hertfordfliiie, is an old decayed 
chefnut tree, the trunk whereof (meafured within 
thefe two years) was found to be forty two feet cir- 
cumference in one part, and forty eight feet in an- 
other, as I am credibly informed. (9) And, to give 
additional force to an argument which is already 
decifive of itfelf, we may obferve, that in the New 
Forefi, there are very many chefnuts irregularly fcat- 
tered among the oaks and other trees j and now to 
befeen in the road from Limington to Southampton. 
In this great abundance of chefnut trees formerly 
among us, we need not wonder that chefnut timber 
was frequently ufed in old houfes, preferable to oak; 
it was then the timber mod efteemed by our joiners 
and carpenters. And, though very lading, yet it 
has been juftly diferedited, in thefe later ages, for 
houfes, becaufe, when it begins to decay, the con- 
fumption commences at the core, and the heart is 
the firft deftroyed. And we can produce fome 
(8) In a News Paper, called The Citizen, or General Adver- 
tizer. Sept. 21. 1758. 
(q) This tree is iituate in the grounds, and near the houfe of 
Little Wymondley Bury, late the eftate of Lord Grofvenor, 
but purthafed within two or three years by Col. Cracherode. 
