Show I ENGLISH OAK MOST DURABLE Specimens of It Have Been Known to toi i Survive In Good Preservation for Centuries i The durability of ot English oak Is the i gre greatest test of ot any known forest timber i discoveries s having ha been made that iti it itis i is preserved almost as well under underwater underwater water through centuries as it Is s when i shielded d by y roofs in ancient castles Professor Burnett of ot London post pasI pos pos- t I a Ii pl piece ce of English oak from King Johns John's palace at Eltham perfectly perfectly per per- sound and strong which can be bo traced back for tor more than five hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred years Th The oaken shrine of ot EdI Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward the Confessor is more than eight f M I fears old One of the oaken coronation a chairs In Westminster abI abbey ab- ab I g bey has bus been there for tor more than five I centuries In Gloucester r cathedral there are I thirty one De sta stalls s of of rich tabernacle e work e ted In oak in t the e reign of 7 j Edward HI Iii and beautifully perfect t. t I 1 When the Ule foundations of ot the old Savoy palace hi tn London built years previously 3 were torn down the piles plies many if et f which were ot of oak were found to in n a state of ot perfect soundness A vessel J found round In the river Roth Rother r. r In Kent said to date back to the time of ot Kin Kins Alfred was found to be bo sound i rde despite the fact that Its oaken keel keelI I had hod been burled in the mud An oak I boat oat was found near Brigs Brigg In an on al- al perfect condition despite the I jf It ct t it was nearly two hundred years I Detroit Detroit News |