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and beautiful, being situated on Paint Creek; the soil, the same in appearance as that de-scribed yesterday, nothing seeming to indicate its superior richness, unless it be the size of its timber. The heaviest and most towering trees we have seen, we met with to-day. Our progress was impeded by our curiosity to take the girth of many trees; we measured white oaks which were from seven to eight feet in diameter; walnuts, six to seven feet four inches; elms, six to six feet eight inches; ash, five feet, and honey locusts four feet in diameter; the girths taken eight feet above the surface of the earth. These trees carried their thickness to an amazingheight. We also measured a few sycamore trees, and most of them were from eight to ten feet in diameter; one of the sycamores we measured which was eight feet in diameter, continued its thickness forty-five feet without a limb, its top very branching and large. While we were admir-ing it, Philip Dennis* suggested an opinion that this tree, could it be split into cord-wood after the common manner, would measure forty cords. At first we questioned the statement, but upon making a calculation, became con-vinced that his estimate was within bounds. These were not trees singled out as the only monuments; we turned not aside to search for them, but measured such as fell under our ownobservation in passing over our road. It is more