The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-08-30
RsMARKAsLe TREES.
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 One-third of tho land surface of our planet $ covered vllh sees. The largest tree in the world is sifuatsd in Mascoli, near fAe foot of uounk Ena, and is called The Cheslnnk Tree of Hundred Horses,v and is be1ieped to be the oldest tree in she w0rid. ls nazne arose from the repoFt that Quom Janeof Arason, with her principal nobailys toek relnee from violent som un6W Fl branches. At one dme i. was sutposod hat it coa-i sisted of a ciump of trees united, but q digging away tho enrsh d. fone VI found entire, and af no Rreat 6opeA. FNe enormous branches rise hnm oae trunk,
 which is 7Ia feet in circumference. A
 part of the trunk has ben bruken away,
 and its interior Is hollow, and large
 enough to contain flock of shsep, q to
 admit two carriages dziving abrsaa through t. It ssill bear, abundance of fruit and its collector have built hut
 within the trunk, the better to promote
 their proceedingR Al Togswoeth, En- gland, there exists chestnut tree meas-
 urine, as four feek from the ground, siay
 feet in circumfezence. although as the
 present time it is neAdy sylvan ruin. A
 6g tree sands on sAe nogthexiy bank of
 the river Johnstone, in East Australia, in
 latitude 2 deGFses, longitude isI de- grees, near Brisbana measuring taree
 teet from the ground, iso feet, and at hfty-6ve feet, where t sends off great
 branches, eighty teet h eircumference.
 There lies upon Mount Bawbaw, Cipps-
 land, southeast Ausnalia, a gum tree measuring 4So fssf a it lies whese it was broken o6 at the nop, and it is calculated to have stood s.o kieh; it msasusn 6 feet in circumtsssace. h BougoudEch, near constantinople, is plans rse measuring I4o iesf h circumfeEence. At Bajak B0urnarhashi Asia Minor, is a pond oveEshadowed by three gigantic plane tree, tho trunk of oee of which, one foot from the syound, measures 43 feet in circumfesoncG
 The larges. tree in the United States stands near Bear creek, on the north side of Tule river. California. It measures I4o feet in circumference. In Tuolumne grove, Nevada, stands The Dead Giant Redwood Tree measuring Iro feet in circumference, which has been so entirely hollowed by long use as chimney that the roadmakers could not resist the temptation of completing the work of camp-hres, so they have cut a great arch way right through the farther side of the poor dead stump. and led the road through it so that now the high, crowded coach daily passes through the very heart of the grea, tree, which may have been young in the days of Julius cesar. There are thirteen other trees sanding near |. measuring from seventy-two ,o ninety-six fec, in circumference. The :" Grizzly Giant" the monarch of the Mariposa grove, measuring ninety-two feet in circumference. The Tularo- Fresno forest, so called from being situassd in those two counties California;, extending seventy miles in length. with . width in some places ot ten miles, consists mainly of big trees, with multitude of smaller ones, measuring from six to 70 feet in circumference.
 Near Santes, in France, stands an oak tree measuring ninety one feex in circum. terence. At Holwood, near Bromley (Engiand), stands an oak tree with root 1 projecting on one side into the shape of a sstsee. Seated upon that root william Fit and William WilbRfprce held to- geehG conversation, a a result of which he lata9, May I7, i78o, brought | the queudon of the abolition of the dave | trade beewe the house oi commons. l The troe is still known e tho Wilberforce l oak Pliny (A. D. 7O tslls us of plane 1 to9 growing in his time, which was in l itself . forsst. The governor of Lucia l gave an entestainmaat to- his friends in | the hollow trunk, whicA is eighty let in |
 ircumtsrence. John Dowd discovered | m Calavezas county, California, a grove of ro3 nees, covering space of 6fty acres, measuring seventy to ninesy-six teet in drcumf6ssncsL Throughout all | England theEe are oak troes of remarka- ble size The "Cowthorp oak" on the banks of the Nidd, in Yorkshire. meas ures at the ground ssvsaty-eieht feet in circumference. The famous tree called the Charter oak" near Hartford. Con- necticut, which fell Augua 7I, 1886, vas thirty-three feet in circumSsrence a, the ground, and 1t fell 90 as to leave eight teet of stump on one side and SIX feet on the other. A double-uunked oak tree n standing in garden in south Beaver, Pennsyivania. which begins ak u root with 2 single tlunk. Tk6 diyidu ineoi two about one foot from 6koaEounA conp dnues thus for tn fes&. and ~ he- como united again. Esch ef tAe eUn trunks, at the point of div563oa. ano6our6D three feet in circumfexonno.
 At Eny, in Cornwall i . uyeh-oam. which was planesd originally -o1 tAolok side of stream, but having ntum some unknown cause been laid prostrsse the trunk fell on tho opposits si1e of the ssream, where it sook root and risine again. has acquired such dimensions thss 1 covers an area of ooe-sixth of an acre. The main stem which nov forms natural bridgs acreo the stream, isten Vt in circunSscseoe, and the tAree trunks which rise from the right bank of the stream measurs ssverallv sieht md d hall, six feet, and fve fssk eight inches in circumference. An sagravinR of it nay oe seen ID aJohn's FEest Trses of Great Britain" page 732. There is an elm tree m the south of England which
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