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be 676 fere; and then allowing three yards (as before) for a beast, chap, iii .leaves 225 beasts, which may pofsibly stand under this tree V

But the Lord’s Oak, that stood inRivelin, was in diameter three yardsand 28 inches, and exceeded this in circumference three feet, at onefoot from the ground..

SHIRE-OAK..

Shire-Oak is a tree standing in the ground late Sir Thomas He wet’s,about a mile from Worksop Park, which drops into three Shires, viz.York, Nottingham,, and Derby, and the distance from bough-end tobough-end is 90 feet, or SO yards.

This circumference will contain near 707 square yards, sufficient to-shade 235 horses.-Thus far the accurate Mr. Hal ton.

Now such venerable trees (especially conspicuously placed as this last)should be spared for the most noble and natural boundaries to greatparishes, and Gentlemen’s estates ; famous for which is the Chesnut-treeat Tamworth;, in Gloucestershire , which continued a signal boundaryto that Manor in King Stephen 's- time, as it stands upon record. Andnow, before I shut up these encouraging instances, I am informed bya person of credit, that an Oak in Sheffield Park, called the Lady’s Oak,when felled; contained forty-two tons of timber, which had arms thatheld at least four feet square for ten yards in length; the body six feet ofclear timber : That in the same park one might have chosen above onethousand trees worth above six thousand pounds,; another thousandworth four , thousand pounds,, et sic cle cateris .- To this Mr. Hal tonreplies, That it might pofsibly be meant of the Lord’s Oak already men-tioned to have grown : in Rivelin; for now Rivelin itself is totallydestitute of that .ifsue she once might have gloried in of Oaks, there beingonly the Hall Park adjoining, which keeps up with its number of Oaks.And as to the computation of one thousand trees formerly in Sheffield

* Ilis Grace the Duke of Portland has presented this work with two fine views of thiscelebrated tree, so that by comparing its present state with its antient one, we may-dis-cpver the ravages that.time has made upon it during a period of 120 years.