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SOME of the oak being carved for the new House of Commons is described as having come from 300 - year - old trees , grown in woods in Herefordshire and Shropshire . ' Two years ago there were photographs of oaks being felled at Whiligh ...
SOME of the oak being carved for the new House of Commons is described as having come from 300 - year - old trees , grown in woods in Herefordshire and Shropshire . ' Two years ago there were photographs of oaks being felled at Whiligh ...
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And if the soil and site are favourable , oak should be fit to fell before it is 200 years old , though there may be exceptional places ( such as the famous Spessart forest in Bavaria ) where selected trees have been spared to an age of ...
And if the soil and site are favourable , oak should be fit to fell before it is 200 years old , though there may be exceptional places ( such as the famous Spessart forest in Bavaria ) where selected trees have been spared to an age of ...
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A ship - of - theline might contain as much as 3,200 loads ; as a load was about 50 cubic feet , this meant that such a large ship , comprising about 160,000 cubic feet of timber , might have cost the forests fully 3,000 average trees .
A ship - of - theline might contain as much as 3,200 loads ; as a load was about 50 cubic feet , this meant that such a large ship , comprising about 160,000 cubic feet of timber , might have cost the forests fully 3,000 average trees .
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 286 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1948 |
| Original from | University of Georgia Libraries |
| Digitized | 13 Jun 2022 |
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