Show INGLISH OAK MOST DURABLE of It Have Been Known to Survive In Good Preservation for Centuries The durability of ot English oak Is the of ot any known forest timber having been made that It I preserved almost as well under ater through centuries as It t is by roofs roots In ancient castles Professor Burnett of London pos- pos n a piece of English oak from fromIng Ing ng Johns John's palace at Eltham pertly per per- Uy sound and strong which can bo be ICed back bock for more than five hun- hun ed cd years The oak oaken n shrine of ot Edward Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward the Confessor Is more than thon eight hundred years old One of the thc oaken- oaken coronation chairs In Westminster abbey abbey abbey ab ab- ab- ab bey has been there for tor more than five centuries In Gloucester cath cathedral dral there are thirty one stalls of rich tabernacle work executed In oak In n the r reign of ot Edward in III and beautifully perfect When the thc foundations of the old Savoy i palace alace In London built years previously were Yere torn down the thc piles I many mani of which were of oak were found In n to-a to a state te of ot perfect soundness A vessel e el found In the river Rother nother In Ini i 1 Rent ent said to date back hack to t the time tlDe of ot I mug Alfred Alfred- was found to be sound despite the fact that Its oaken keel had been burled burle In the mud An oak oat boat was found near In an nl- nl I roost perfect condition despite the fact tACt It It was nearly two h hundred years Detroit lt News oW Detroit |