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their particular species, but the greatest which are to be found 
in most of our towns.” 
Diameter. 
Pine,.6 feet, 
Maple, .5 “ 9 inches, 
Buttonwood, ... 5 “ 6 “ 
Elm, .5 “ 
Hemlock,.4 “ 9 “ 
Oak,.4 “ 
Basswood, .... 4 “ 
Ash,.4 “ 
Birch,.4 “ 
Height. 
247 feet. 
From 100 to 200 feet. 
He adds a note saying that a white pine was cut in Dun¬ 
stable, Hew Hampshire, in the year 1736, the diameter of 
which was seven feet and eight inches. Dr. Dwight says that 
a fallen pine in Connecticut was found to measure two hun¬ 
dred and forty-seven feet in height, and adds : “ A few years 
since, such trees were in great numbers along the northern 
parts of Connecticut River.” In another letter, he speaks of 
the white pine as u frequently six feet in diameter, and two 
hundred and fifty feet in height,” and states that a pine had 
been cut in Lancaster, Hew Hampshire, which measured two 
hundred and sixty-four feet. Emerson wrote in 1846 : “ Fifty 
years ago, several trees growing on rather dry land in Bland- 
ford, Massachusetts, measured, after they were felled, two 
hundred and twenty-three feet. All these trees are surpassed 
by a pine felled at Hanover, Hew Hampshire, about a hundred 
years ago, and described as measuring two hundred and sev¬ 
enty-four feet.* 
These descriptions, it will be noticed, apply to trees cut 
from sixty to one hundred years since. Persons, whom ob¬ 
servation has rendered familiar with the present character of 
the American forest, will be struck with the smallness of the 
diameter which Dr. Williams and Dr. Dwight ascribe to trees 
* Williams, History of Vermont, ii, p. 53. Dwight’s Travels, iv, p. 21, 
and iii, p. 36. Emerson, Trees of Massachusetts, p. 61. Parish, Life of 
President Wheelock, p. 56. 
