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Show A Difcourfe of Foreft- Trees. Chap.XXX, Tree that was thirteen foot diameter atthe Kerf, orcutting place . neer the Root. In the fame Park twoyears fince, Mr. Sittwel/, with Jo. Adag/fon did chufe a Tree, whichafter it was cut , and laid afide flatupona level ground, Sam, Staniforth a Keeper, and Ed. Morphy , botben horfe-back, could not fee over the Tree one anothers Hat- crowns, Jo. Halton: ' This Tree was afterwards fold for 20/7. « Inthe fame Park, neer the old foord, is an Oaktree yet {tanding, ‘ ‘ of ten yards circumference. Inthe fame Park, below the Conduit Plain, is an Oak-tree which bears atop, whofe boughs thoot from the boal fomefifteen, and fome fixteen yards. Then admitting 15} yards for the common , or mean extent ofthe boughs fromthe boal, which being dou- bled is 31 yards; and if it be imagin‘d for a diameter, becaufe the Ratio of the diameter to the circumference is 333 it follows 113. 355.22916 97 34 yards which is the cireumference belonging to this diameter. Then farther it is demonftrable in Geowetry , that half the diameter multiplied into half the circumference Cha p.XXX. Cha A Difcourfe of Forett-TTrees, 157/ three fquare yards (as above) fora n Horfe,there may mh 942 b = well faid to f{tand inthi s compafs. nthe iame Park (after many hundred | y :there isa > ance Tree whic which hdid did yield yield quart ; er-cliffSa bottoch ms that i weree a yard juare: andthere 1s of them to befeen in Worksopp at this day, Fo..14 and fome Tables made of the {aid quarter-chiff likew ile a In the fame Purk, in the place ther e call'd the Hawkt-nesf are Trees forty foot long of Timb er , which will bear two foot f uate the top-end or height of forty foot, aie If thena fquare whofe fideis twofoot, be infetibed ina Circle , the proportionsat that Circle are feet Diameter Gircumference Area 2; 8284 8: 8858 6 : 2831 And becaufe a Tun of Timber is {aid to contain forty folid feet: one of thefe Columns of Oak will contain a- bove fix Tun of Timber and aquarter: in this tation taking them tobe Cylinders » and not computapering like the fegwent of a Cone. produces the Area or quantity of the Grele , and that will be found to be 754 3%; which is 755 fquare yards fere. Thenlaftly , if a Horfe can be limited to three fquare yards of ground to ftand on (which may feem a competent proportion of three yards Jong , and one yard broad) thenmay 251 Horfé be well faid to ftand'un- der the fhade of this Tree. But of the more Northern Cattle certainly, above twice that number. en =" 16. Inthis Park, at the cornerof the Brad/haw-rail , lyeth the boal of an Oak-tree which is twenty nine foot about, and would be found thirty , if it could be juftly meafur’d 5 becaufe it lyeth upon the ground; and the lengthof this boalisten foot, and no arm, nor branch uponit, In the fame Park, at the white gate, a Tree did ftand that was fiom bough end to bough end (that is, from the extream ends of two oppofite boughs) 180 foot; whichis witnefv'd by Jo, Azag/on and Geo, Hall, and meafur’d by them both. Then becaufe 180 foot, or 60 yards is the diameter 3 30 yards will be the fexidiameter: And by the former Analogies 113. 355 2: 60, 188 an I. 17. The Oakwhich ftands in this Lawe call’d Grinda l. Oak, hath at thefe feveral diftances from the ground thefe Circum ferences > foot at at 2 at 6 foot inch 33: O1 28 : Os 2555.67 The breadthis from bough-end to bough end (2.) diamet Workfopp-Park. Kenhelm Homer, Welbeek-Lane,; 303! 942. 28272 That is, the Content of ground upon which this Tree per pendicularly drops, is above 2827 fquare yards, which is abovehalf an Acre of ground: And the affigning three rically 88 foot 5 the height from the ground to the top-moft bough 81 foot [this dimenfoe taken from the propor tion that a Gromon parnd the fhadow | there are three Arms broke n off and gone, —— and eight very y large large ones ones yet yet remain remainiing, ng which ic are very ry frefh fi and g 4420€r, GR Erato ot cada wig ute ade : - 295 yards, rr being in this cafe admit, ted or the drameter of a circle, the {quare yards in that circumference will be 676 feres and then allowing three yards (asbefore) fora beaft, leaves 225 beatts, which maypofliblyftand under this Tree. But the Lords Oak, thatftood in Rivelin, was in diameter three ards , and twenty eight inches ; and exceeded this in circumfeence three feet, at one foot from the ground, Shire-Oak, _ Shire-Oak is a Tree {tanding in the ground late Sir Tho, Hewets, Hen, Homer. ; a Viz. York, Nottingham, and Derby, and the diftan 7 : ce from boughend about a mile from W orksopp-Park » Which drops into three Shires, > nr |