The Natural History of Selborne

The circumference of trees in my outlet planted by myself, at one foot from the ground.

Oak by alcove in 1730: 4′ 5”;
Ash by Do. in 1730: 4′ 6 1/2”;
Great fir, bakers hill, 1751: 5′ 0”;
Greatest beech, 1751: 4′ 0”;
Elm, 1750: 5′ 3”;
Lime over at Mr Hale’s planted by me in 1756: 5′ 5”;
My single great oak in the meadow, age unknown: 10′ 6 1/2”;
The diameter of it’s boughs three ways is 24 yards, or 72 feet: circumference of it’s boughs 72 yards.

Mr White’s single great oak at Newton measures at one foot above the ground 12 feet 6 inch: the exact dimensions of that belonging to, & planted by Mr Marsham.  A vast ree must that be at Stratton to have been planted by a person now living!