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explore its tangled haunts. This fine feeling of entering by proxy, as it were, into the interests and enjoyments 
of posterity, is most pleasingly expressed in the following lines on an obelisk at the termination of a noble avenue 
in the park of Lord Carlisle, at Castle Howard in Yorkshire, and written by one of his ancestors : 
“Tf to perfection these plantations rise, Here then with kind remembrance read his name 
If they agreeably my heirs surprise, Who for posterity perform’d the same. 
This faithful pillar will their age declare, Charles, the 3d Earl of Carlisle 
As long as Time these characters shall spare. of the family of the Howards. 
Erected 1731.” 
It is impossible to read these lines, quaint and simple as they are, without being conscious of sentiments of 
respect towards the benevolent spirit by which they are dictated; and under that impression the very trees 
themselves seem to rise in prouder majesty, to fan the air more gracefully, to offer a more refreshing shade, in 
erateful tribute to the memory of him by whose hand they were planted. 
PLATE XXXIV._THE SQUITCH BANK OAK. 
Tus majestic Tree stands in Bagot’s Park, in Staffordshire. It is the property of Lord Bagot, who may 
be regarded. as one of the greatest encouragers of Oak timber in the kingdom, having planted two millions of 
acorns on his estates in Staffordshire and Wales; which display, on every side, scenes of sylvan beauty and 
grandeur that can scarcely be surpassed. Bagot’s Park, as already mentioned, is four miles from Blithfield 
a domain abounding with rich and graceful variety of scenery. The gardens bloom with a thousand sweets ; the 
birds warbling among them in notes of gratitude to the fresh and balmy air. The lawns, clothed with oaks and 
clumps of trees, exhibit the most soft and delicious verdure, and present at every turn splendid views over a 
rich and woody country. ‘The Park itself abounds with magnificent and ancient timber: it is plentifully stocked 
with red deer, and wild goats, and is bordered with the romantic cliffs that rise on the banks of the river Dove. 
It was amid scenes so inspiring and delightful, and under the encouraging influence of attentions from their 
noble owner, of which he will always retain a great remembrance, that the Author of this work made one of 
his earliest sketches for it, from the Beggar’s Oak: and he trusts he shall not be accused of an undue degree of 
egotism, if he so far yields to the impulse of his feelings, as to acknowledge in this place the gratification he has 
derived from finding his attempt to form a national record of some of the principal Forest Trees that peculiarly 
ornament England above all other countries, so generously received by the public, as well as by the distinguished 
individuals from whose domains his subjects have been principally derived. 
The Squitch Bank Oak is in its full vigour and beauty. Its circumference at the roots is forty-three feet ; 
and at five feet high it is twenty-one feet nine inches. It is thirty-three feet in height to the crown; and twenty- 
eight feet above; in all sixty-one feet. The butt contains six hundred and sixty feet nine inches of timber ; the 
principal limb seventy-nine feet six inches; and the other limbs, fourteen in number, two hundred and seventy- 
two feet seven inches; making its total contents one thousand and twelve feet ten inches of solid timber. 
PLATE XXXV.—GOG AND MAGOG. 
Turse fine Trees stand in Yardley Forest, and are the property of the Marquess of Northampton. The 
largest of them, Gog, measures thirty-eight feet at the roots, twenty-eight feet at three feet from the ground; 
is fifty-eight feet in height, and contains sixteen hundred and sixty-eight feet seven inches of solid timber. 
Magog is more imposing in dimensions, measuring fifty-four feet four inches at the ground, and thirty-one feet 
three inches at three feet higher up; but in height it is inferior, being forty-nine feet; its solid contents are nine 
hundred and twelve feet ten inches. ‘The estate of the Marquess of Northampton abounds with many other 
magnificent specimens of forest trees ; and it will not lessen their interest to recollect, that among them the poet 
Cowper often pursued the train of moral thought, and wove the harmonious numbers, with which he afterwards 
