Quarter. of the lower deck; h the gun-ports of the upper and quarter-deck. I the after-part of the mizzen channel. K the wing transom. KG the lower counter. LB the station of the deck transom. LQ the after-part of the main-wale. DR the after-part of the channel-wale, parallel to the main-wale. SU the sheer-rail, parallel to both wales. Tt the rudder. At F the rake of the stern. Pii the drift-rails. TU the after-part of the load water-line; k kl the curve of the several decks corresponding to those represented in the head. See the article HEAD.

As the marks, by which vessels of different constructions are distinguished from each other, are generally more conspicuous on the stern or quarter than any other part, we have represented some of the quarters, which assume the most different shapes, and form the greatest Fig. 2. 3. 4. contrast with each other. Fig. 2. shows the stern and 5. 6. 7. quarter of a Dutch flight. Fig. 3. the stern and quarter of a cat. Fig. 4. is the stern and quarter of a common galley. Fig. 5. exhibits the quarter of a first-rate galley, otherwise called a galleasse. Fig. 6. the quarter of a Dutch dogger, or galliot. Fig. 7. represents the stern and quarter of a sloop of war.

The quarters of all other ships have a near affinity to those above exhibited. Thus all ships of the line, and East-Indiamen, are formed with a quarter little differing from the principal figure in this plate. Xebecs have quarters nearly resembling those of galleasses, only somewhat higher. Hagboats and pinks approach the figure of cats, the former being a little broader in the stern, and the latter a little narrower; and the sterns and quarters of cats seem to be derived from those of fly-boats. The sterns of Dutch doggers and galliots are indeed sin gular, and like those of no other modern vessel: they have nevertheless a great resemblance to the ships of the ancient Grecians, as represented in medals and other monuments of antiquity.

On the QUARTER, may be defined an arch of the horizon, contained between the line prolonged from the ship's stern and any distant object, as land, ships, &c. Thus if the ship's keel lies on an east and west line, the stern being westward, any distant object perceived on the north-west or south-west, is said to be on the larboard or starboard quarter.

QUARTER-Bill, a roll, or list, containing the different stations, to which all the officers and crew of the ship are quartered in the time of battle, and the names of all the persons appointed to those stations. See QUARTERS.

QUARTER-Master, an officer, generally a lieutenant, whose principal business is to look after the quarters of the soldiers, their clothing, bread, ammunition, firing, &c. Every regiment of foot and artillery has a quarter-master, and every troop of horse one, who are only warrant-officers, except in the Blues.

QUARTER-Master-General, is a considerable officer in the army; and should be a man of great judgment and experience, and well skilled in geography. His duty is to mark the marches and encampments of an army he should know the country perfectly well, with its rivers, plains, marshes, woods, mountains, defiles, passages, &c. even to the smallest brook. Prior to a march, he receives the order and route from the commanding general, and appoints a place for the

quarter-masters of the army to meet him next morning, Quare with whom he marches to the next camp; where being come, and having viewed the ground, he marks out to the regimental quarter-masters the ground allowed each regiment for their camp: he chooses the head-quarters, and appoints the villages for the generals of the army's quarters: he appoints a proper place for the encampment of the train of artillery: he conducts foraging parties, as likewise the troops to cover them against assaults, and has a share in regulating the winter-quarters and cantonments.

QUARTER-Netting, a sort of net-work, extended along the rails on the upper part of a ship's quarter. In a ship of war these are always double, being supported by iron cranes, placed at proper distances. The interval is sometimes filled with cork, or old sails; but chiefly with the hammocks of the sailors, so as to form a parapet to prevent the execution of the enemy's small armis in battle.

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QUARTER-Sessions, a general court held quarterly by Blackst the justices of peace of each county. This court is TOL it. appointed by stat. 2 Hen. V. c. 4. to be in the first week after Michaelmas-day; the first week after the Epiphany; the first week after the close of Easter; and in the week after the translation of Saint Thomas à Becket, or the 7th of July. The court is held before two or more justices of the peace, one of whom must be of the quorum. The jurisdiction of this court by 34 Ed. III. c. I. extends to the trying and determining of all felonies and trespasses whatsoever, though they seldom, if ever, try any greater offence than small felonies within the benefit of clergy, their commission providing, that if any case of difficulty arises, they shall not proceed to judgment, but in the presence of one of the justices of the court of king's bench or common pleas, or one of the judges of assize. And therefore murderers and other capital felons are usually remitted for a more solemn trial to the assizes. They cannot also try any new created offence, without express power given them by the statute which creates it. But there are many offences, and particularly matters, which by particular statutes belong properly to this jurisdiction, and ought to be prosecuted in this court; as, the smaller misdemeanors against the public or commonwealth, not amounting to felony, and especially offences relating to the game, highways, alehouses, bastard children, the settlement and provision for the poor, vagrants, servants wages, apprentices, and popish recusants. Some of these are proceeded upon by indictment, and others in a summary way by motion and order thereupon; which order may, for the most part, unless guarded against by particular statutes, be removed into the court of king's bench, by writ of certiorari facias, and be there either quashed or confirmed. The records or rolls of the sessions are committed to the custody of a special officer, denominated the custos rotulorum. In most corporation towns there are quarter-sessions kept before justices of their own, within their respective limits, which have exactly the same authority as the general quarter-sessions of the county, except in very few instances: one of the most considerable of which is the matter of appeals from orders of removal of the poor, which, though they be from the orders of corporation justices, must be to the sessions of the county, by 8 and 9 Will. III. c. 30. In both corpo

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troops that have been much harassed are put to recover Quarters themselves during some part of the campaign.

Quarter, rations and countries at large, there is sometimes kept Quarters. a special or petty session, by a few justices, for dispatching smaller business in the neighbourhood between the times of the general sessions, as for licensing alehouses, passing the accounts of parish-officers, and the

like.

QUARTER-Staff, a long staff borne by foresters, parkkeepers, &c. as a badge of their office, and occasionally used as a weapon.

QUARTERS, a name given at sea to the several stations where the officers and crew of a ship of war are posted in action. See WAR, Part II.

The number of men appointed to manage the ar tillery is always in proportion to the nature of the guns, and the number and condition of the ship's crew. They are, in general, as follow, when the ship is well manned, so as to fight both sides at once occasionally:

The lieutenants are usually stationed to command the different batteries, and direct their efforts against the enemy. The master superintends the movements of the ship, and whatever relates to the sails. The boatswain, and a sufficient number of men, are stationed to repair the damaged rigging; and the gunner and carpenter, wherever necessary, according to their respective offices.

The marines are generally quartered on the poop and forecastle, or gang-way, under the directions of their officers; although, on some occasions, they assist at the great guns, particularly in distant cannonading.

QUARTERS, at a siege, the encampment upon one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and convoys.

Head QUARTERS of an Army, the place where the commander in chief has his quarters. The quarters of generals of horse are, if possible, in villages behind the right and left wings, and the generals of foot are often in the same place: but the commander in chief should be near the centre of the army.

QUARTERS of Refreshment, the place or places where VOL. XVII. Part II.

Intrenched QUARTERS, a place fortified with a ditch, Quassia. and parapet to secure a body of troops.

Winter QUARTERS, sometimes means the space of time included between leaving the camp and taking the field; but more properly the places where the troops are quartered during the winter.

The first business, after the army is in winter-quarters, is to form the chain of troops to cover the quarters well which is done either behind a river, under cover of a range of strong posts, or under the protection of fortified towns. Hussars are very useful on this service.

It should be observed, as an invariable maxim, in winter quarters, that your regiments be disposed in brigades, to be always under the eye of a general officer; and, if possible, let the regiments be so distributed, as to be each under the command of its own chief.

QUARTILE, an aspect of the planets when they are at the distance of 90° from each other, and it is denoted by the character .

QUARTERING, in Heraldry, is dividing a coat into four or more quarters, or quarterings, by parting, couping, &c. that is, by perpendicular and horizontal lines, &c.

QUARTO-DECIMANS, an ancient sect in the Christian church, who taught that Easter should always be celebrated according to the custom of the Jews, on the fourteenth day of the moon in the month of March, whensoever that day fell out. And hence they derived their name quarto-decimani, q. d. Fourteenthers. The Asiatics were mightily attached to this opinion, pretending that it was built on the authority of St John, who was their apostle; and Pope Victor could never bring them to obedience in this article, though he was upon the point of excommunicating them: but it is more probable he contented himself with menaces. See EASTER.

QUARTZ, a mineral composed chiefly of siliceous earths. See MINERALOGY Index.

QUASHING, in Law, the overthrowing and annulling a thing.

QUASI-CONTRACT, in the civil law, an act without the strict form of a contract, but yet having the force thereof. In a contract there must be the mutual consent of both parties, but in a quasi-contract one party may be bound or obligated to the other, without having given his consent to the act whereby he is obliged. For example I have done your business, in your absence, without your procuration, and it has succeeded to your advantage. I have then an action against you for the recovery of what I have disbursed, and you an action against me to make me give an account of my administration, which amounts to a quasi-contract.

QUASI-Crime, or Quasi-delict, in the civil law, the action of a person who does damage, or evil, involuntarily. The reparation of quasi-crimes consists in making good the damages, with interest.

QUASS, a fermented liquor drunk in Russia. See PEASANT.

QUASSIA, a genus of plants, belonging to the decandria class; and in the natural method ranking under the 14th order, Gruinales. See BOTANY Index. + 4 G QUATUOR

Quatuorvir QUATUORVIR, in antiquity, formerly written IIII. VIR, a Roman magistrate, who had three colleagues Quebec. joined with him in the same administration, and had the care of conducting and settling the colonies sent into the provinces. There were also quatuorviri appointed to inspect and take care of repairs, &c. QUAVER, in Music, a measure of time equal to half a crotchet, or an eighth part of a semibreve. QUAY. Ste KEY.

QUEBEC, a handsome and large town of North America, and capital of Canada. The first place taken notice of when landing here is a square of an irregular figure, with well-built houses on each side; on the back of which is a rock; on the left it is bounded by a small church; and on the right are two rows of houses, parallel to each other. There is another between the church and the harbour; as also another long row on the side of the bay. This may be looked upon as a kind of suburb; and between this and the great street is a very steep ascent, in which they have made steps for the foot passengers to go up. This may be called the Upper Town, wherein is the bishop's palace; and between two large squares is a fort where the governor lodges. The Recolets have handsome houses overagainst it, and on the right is the cathedral church: over-against this is the Jesuits college, and between them are well built houses; from the fort run two streets, which are crossed by a third, and between these are a church and a convent. In the second square are two descents to the river of St Charles. The Hotel Dieu is in the midway; and from thence are small houses, which reach to the house of the intendant. On the other side of the Jesuits college, where the church stands, is a pretty long street in which is a nunnery. Almost all the houses are built of stone, and there are about 15,000 inhabitants; the fort is a handsome building, but not quite finished. Quebec is not regularly Quebec is not regularly fortified but it cannot be easily taken; for the harbour is flanked with two bastions, which at high tides are almost level with the water. A little above one of the bastions is a demi-bastion, partly taken out of the rock; and above it, on the side of the gallery of the fort, is a battery of 25 pieces of cannon: still above this is a square fort called the citadel; and the ways from one fortification to another are difficult to pass. To the left of the harbour, on the side of the road, there are large batteries of cannon, and some mortars; besides these, there are several other fortifications not very easy to be described. In 1711 the British fitted out a fleet with a design to conquer Canada, which failed on account of the rashness of the admiral; who, contrary to the advice of his pilot, went too near the Seven isles, and so lost his largest ships, and 3000 of his best soldiers. It is about 300 miles north-west of Boston in New-England. On October, 18. 1759, it was taken by the British under the command of General Wolfe, who lost his life in the battle, after he had the satisfaction to know that our troops were victorious. Admiral Saunders commanded a squadron of men of war, and did immense service in reducing this place; there being not a man in the navy but what was active on this occasion, not excepting the sailors belonging to the transport vessels. After this valuable acquisition, all Canada came under the jurisdiction of the

W. Long. 69. 48. N. Lat. Quebec

crown of Great Britain. 46. 55. QUEDA, a kingdom of Asia, in the peninsula be- Quetayond the Ganges, and near the straits of Malacca. The king is tributary to Siam. The principal town is of the same name, and said to contain about 8000 inhabitants. It has a harbour, and is 300 miles north of Malacca. E. Long. 100. 5. N. Lat. 7. 5.

QUEDLINGBURG, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper Saxony, now belonging to Prussia. Hers is a famous abbey, whose abbess was a princess of the empire, and sent deputies to the diets. Her contingent was one horseman and ten footmen. The inhabitants of the town live by brewing, husbandry, and feeding of cattle. It is jo miles south-east of Halberstadt, and 32 west of Beruberg. E. Long. 11. 34. N. Lat. 52. 1.

QUEEN, a woman who holds a crown singly.

The title of queen is also given by way of courtesy to her that is married to a king, who is called by way of distinction queen-consort; the former being termed queen-regent. The widow of a king is also called queen, but with the addition of dowager. See ROYAL Family.

QUEEN Charlotte's Sound is situated at the northern extremity of the southern island of New Zealand, near Cook's Strait, lying in 41. 6. of south latitude, and 174. 19. of east longitude. The climate of this sound is much more mild than at Dusky Bay; and though there is not such plenty of wild fowl and fish, the defect is sufficiently compensated by the abundance of excellent vegetables. The hills about the sound consist mostly of an argillaceous stone of a greenish gray, or bluish or yellowish brown colour. A green talkous or nephritic (by the jewellers called jade) is likewise very common, together with horn-stone, shingle, several sorts of flinty stones and pebbles, some loose pieces of basaltes, strata of a compact mica or glimmer, with particles of quartz. Hence, Mr Forrester thinks, there is reason to believe that this part of New Zealand contains iron-ore, and perhaps several other metallic substances. The country is not so steep as at Dusky Bay, and the hills near the sea are generally inferior in height, but covered with forests equally intricate and impenetrable. Captain Cook sowed the seeds of many vegetables in this place, that have useful and nutritive roots. He sowed also corn of several sorts, beans, kidney-beans, and pease. ney-beans, and pease. The dogs here are of the longhaired sort, with pricked ears, and resemble the common shepherd's cur, but they are very stupid animals. They are fed with fish, and even dogs flesh, and perhaps human flesh, which the natives also eat. Captains Cook and Furneaux left on these islands a boar and two sows, with a pair of goats, male and female, with some geese, in order to benefit the natives and future generations of navigators. They left likewise among them a number of brass medals gilt, on one side of which was the head of his present Majesty, with the inscription "George III. King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland," &c. On the reverse, a representation of two men of war, with the names Resolution and Adventure over them; and on the exergue, “Sailed from England March MDCCLXXII."

QUEEN-Gold, is a royal duty or revenue belonging

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to every queen of England during her marriage to the king, payable by persons in this kingdom and Ireland, on divers grants of the king by way of fine and oblation, &c. being one full tenth part above the entire fines, on pardons, contracts, or agreements, which becomes a real debt to the queen, by the name of aurum reginæ, upon the party's bare agreement with the king for his fine, and recording the same.

QUEEN's County, a division of the province of Leinster in Ireland; so called from the popish Queen Mary, in whose reign it was first made a county by the earl of Sussex, then lord-deputy. It is bounded on the south by Kilkenny and Catherlogh: by King's county on the north and west; part of Kildare and Catherlogh on the east; and part of Tipperary on the west. Its greatest length from north to south is 35 miles, and its breadth near as much; but it is unequal both ways. This country was anciently full of bogs and woods, though now pretty well enclosed and cultivated. The number of inhabitants amounts to 82,000; and it sends two members to the imperial parliament.

QUEEN-Bee. See BEE, N° 3, &c. QUEENBOROUGH, a town of the isle of Sheppey in Kent, which sends two members to parliament, though consisting only of about 100 low brick houses, and scarce 350 inhabitants. The chief employment of the people here is oyster-dredging; oysters being very plentiful, and of a fine flavour. E. Long. o. 45 N. Lat. 51. 25.

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QUEI-LING-FOU, the capital of the province of Quei lingQuangsi in China, has its name from a flower called quei, which grows on a tree resembling a laurel; it exhales so sweet and agreeable an odour, that the whole Quercus, country around is perfumed with it. It is situated on Grosier's

QUEENSFERRY, which is sometimes denominated South Queensferry, is a royal borough in the shire of Linlithgow, on the coast of the frith of Forth, about 9 miles to the westward of Edinburgh. It obtained the name from Margaret, queen of Malcom Canmore, who was in the habit of frequenting the passage of the frith at this place, and was the principal patroness of the town. It is a small place, consisting of no more than one irregular street, the houses of which are small, and chiefly inhabited by people who lead a seafaring life. The principal manufacture is that of soap, begun in the year 1770, which from 1783 to 1789 was a trade of considerable extent, the works being then four in number, and paying about 10,000l. annually of excise duty.

The shipping of the port has considerably declined; and at present the chief consequence of the place may be regarded as arising from the ferry over the frith of Forth, which is very much frequented. The river here is about two miles broad, and on each side has convenient landing places. The passage is both safe and expeditious, and with the exception of a very few cases, may be had at all times. It is one of five boroughs that send a member to the British or Imperial parliament, the other four being Stirling, Dun fermline, Inverkeithing, and Culross. The parish is of very small extent, being confined to the borough. It is an erection in the parish of Dalmeny, which took place in the year 1636. The inhabitants were 558 in the year 1811.

QUEENSFERRY, NORTH, a village in Fifeshire, situated on the Forth, directly opposite to the borough of Queensferry, between which there are regular passage boats. It lies in the parish of Dunfermline, but is annexed, quoad sacra, to the parish of Inverkeithing. The inhabitants in 1793 were 312.

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the banks of a river, which throws itself into the Ta- General ho; but it flows with such rapidity, and amidst so nar- Description of row valleys, that it is neither navigable nor of utiany lity to commerce. This city is large, and the whole of it is built almost after the model of our ancient fortresses; but it is much inferior to the greater part of the capitals of the other provinces. A great number of birds are found in the territories belonging to it, the colours of which are so bright and variegated, that the artists of this country, in order to add to the lustre of their silks, interweave with them some of their feathers, which have a splendour and beauty that cannot be imitated. Quei-ling has under its jurisdiction two cities of the second class and seven of the third.

QUEI, in Natural History, is a name given by the Chinese to a peculiar earth found in many parts of the east. It is of the nature of an indurated clay, and in some de gree approaches to the talks, as our steatites and the galactites do. It is very white and abstersive, used by the women of China to take off spots from the skin, and render it soft and smooth, as the Italian ladies use talk of Venice. They sometimes use the fine powder of this stone dry, rubbing it on the hands and face after washing; sometimes they mix it in pomatum.

QUELPAERT, an island in the mouth of the channel of Japan, subject to the king of Corea. Before the last voyage of the unfortunate La Perouse, this island was only known to the Europeans by the wreck of the Dutch ship Sparrow-hawk, in the year 1635. Some of the crew of this ship were kept prisoners for about 18 years, during which period they were often severely treated; but having found means to escape to Japan and from thence to Batavia, they at last arrived in safety at Amsterdam. La Perouse discovered the island on the 21st of May 1787, the south point of which is in N. Lat. 33° 14', and E. Long. 124° 15′ from Paris. The land has a gradual slope towards the sea, which makes the habitations assume the appearance of an amphitheatre. The soil appeared to be highly cultivated, and the divisions of fields were perceived by the assistance of glasses, which afforded a convincing proof of an extensive population. It is unfortunately inhabited by a people who are prohibited from all intercourse with strangers, and who make slaves of all those who have the misfortune to suffer shipwreck on their coasts.

QUERCI, a province of Guienne in France; bounded on the north by Limosin, on the east by Rouergue and Auvergne, on the south by Upper Languedoc, and on the west by Agenois and Perigord. It was divided into Upper and Lower; and corresponds nearly with. the department of Lot. Cahors is the capital town.

QUERCUS, a genus of plants, belonging to the monocia class; and in the natural method ranking under the 50th order, Amentacea. See BOTANY Index.

The robur, or common English oak, grows from about 60 or 70 to 100 feet high, with a prodigious large trunk, and monstrous spreading head; oblong leaves, broadest towards the top, the edges acutely sinuated, having the angles obtuse. There is a variety, having the leaves finely striped with white. This species grows 4 G 2

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Quercus. in great abundance all over England, in woods, forests, and hedge-rows; is naturally of an amazing large growth, there being accounts of some above 100 feet stature, with wonderful large trunks and spreading heads; and is supposed to continue its growth many

centuries.

The suber, or cork-tree, grows 30 or 40 feet high, having a thick, rough, fungous, cleft bark, and oblongoval undivided serrated leaves, downy underneath. This species furnishes that useful material cork; it being the bark of the tree, which becoming of a thick fungous nature, under which, at the same time, is formed a new bark, and the old being detached for use, the tree still lives, and the succeeding young bark becomes also of the same thick spongy nature in six or seven years, fit for barking, having likewise another fresh bark forming under it, becoming cork like the others in the like period of time; and in this manner these trees wonderfully furnish the cork for our use, and of which is made the corks for bottles, bungs for barrels, and numerous other useful articles. The tree grows in great plenty in Spain and Portugal, and from these countries we receive the cork. The Spaniards burn it, to make that kind of light black we call Spanish black, used by paint

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Oak-trees, of all the above sorts, may be employed in .gardening to diversify large ornamental plantations in out-grounds, and in forming clumps in spacious lawns, parks, and other extensive opens; the evergreen kinds in particular have great merit for all ornamental poses in gardens. But all the larger growing kinds, both deciduous and evergreens, demand esteem principally as first-rate forest-trees for their timber. The English oak, however, claims precedence as a timber-tree, for its prodigious height and bulk, and superior worth of its wood. Every possessor of considerable estates ought therefore to be particularly assiduous in raising woods of them, which is effected by sowing the acorns either in a nursery and the plants transplanted where they are to remain, or sowed at once in the places where they are always to stand. All the sorts will prosper in any middling soil and open situation, though in a loamy soil they are generally more prosperous: however, there are but few soils in which oaks will not grow; they will even thrive tolerably in gravelly, sandy, and clayey land, as may be observed in many parts of this country of the common oak.

The oak is of the utmost importance to Britain, and its cultivation deserves the utmost attention. Much, therefore, to the honour of the members of the London Society for encouraging Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, they have excited particular attention to it; and many excellent observations, drawn from practice, will be found in their Transactions.

The propagation of the striped-leaved varieties of the common oak, and any particular variety of the other species, must be effected by grafting, as they will not continue the same from seed: the grafting may be performed upon any kind of oakling-stocks raised

from the acorns, and train them for standards like the Quee others.

The oak is remarkable for its slowness of growth, bulk, and longevity. It has been remarked that the trunk has attained to the size only of 14 inches in diameter, and of some to 20, in the space of fourscore years. As to bulk, we have an account of an oak belonging to Lord Powis, growing in Broomfield wood, near Ludlow in Shropshire, in the year 1764, the trunk of which measured 68 feet in girth, 23 in length, and which, reckoning 90 feet for the larger branches, contained in the whole 1455 fect of timber, round measure, or 29 loads and five feet, at 50 feet to a load.

The Greendale oak, &c. we have already mentioned (see OAK). In the opinion of many, the Cowthorp oak near Wetherby in Yorkshire is the father of the forest. Dr Hunter, in his edition of Evelyn, has given an engraving of it. Within three feet of the surface he says it measures 16 yards, and close to the ground 26. İn 1776, though in a ruinous condition, it was 85 feet high, and its principal limb extended 16 yards from the bole. The foliage was very thin. If this measurement were taken as the dimension of the real stem, the size of this tree would be enormous; but, like most very large trees, its stem is short, spreading wide at the base, the roots rising above the ground like buttresses to the trunk, which is similar not to a cylinder but to the frustum of a cone. Mr Marsham says, "I found it in 1768, at four feet, 40 feet six inches; at five feet, 36 feet six inches; and at six feet, 32 feet one inch." In the principal dimensions then, the size of the stem, it is exceeded by the Bentley oak; of which the same writer gives the following account: "In 1759 the oak in Holt-Forest, near Bentley, was at seven feet 34 feet. There is a large excrescence at five and six feet that would render the measure unfair. In 1778, this tree was increased half an inch in 19 years. It does not appear to be hollow, but by the trifling increase I conclude it not sound." These dimensions, however, are exceeded by those of the Boddington oak. It grows in a piece of rich grass land, called the Old Orchard Ground, belonging to Boddington-Manor Farm, lying near the turnpike-road between Cheltenham and Tewks bury, in the Vale of Gloucester. The stem is remarkably collected at the root, the sides of its trunk being much more upright than those of large trees in general; and yet its circumference at the ground is about 20 paces: measuring with a two-foot rule, it is more than 18 yards. At three feet high it is 43 feet, and where smallest, i. e. from five to six feet high, it is 36 feet. At six feet it swells out larger, and forms an enormous head, which has been furnished with huge, and probably extensive, arms. But time and the fury of the wind have robbed it of much of its grandeur; and the greatest extent of arm in 1793 was eight yards from the