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The stems of many trees were torn off within a few feet of the ground; andothers merely had the head or branches broken, without being entirelydetached. ( iieejig. 1644.) Whole trunks, huge limbs and branches, withimmense masses of earth, were mingled on the ground in such a manner as togive the idea of a battery of heavy artillery having been directed against thetrees in that part of the park. In some instances the stems exhibited “ theappearance of having been cut off, and in others they are rent from top tobottom, or have had their giant limbs twisted off, as if they had been but so manytwigs.” Lofty oaks were struck near their summits, and immense portionsof their upper limbs and branches were torn down, but not quite severed fromthe trunk, and, with their heads resting on the ground, formed “ a sort of tent offoliage upwards of 30 ft. high .... Several oaks had at least a dozen immensebranches torn off, while the bare and desolate-looking trunk was left standing;and, in many instances, the limbs and branches of standing trees were twisted