"Our direct road was right over the heath, through Tilford, to Farnham: but we veered a little to the left after we came to Tilford, at which place, on the green, we stopped to look at an _oak tree_, which, when I was a little boy, was but a very little tree, comparatively, and which is now, taken altogether, by far the finest tree that I ever saw in my life. The stem or shaft is short, that is to say, it is short before you come to the first limbs; but it is full thirty feet round at about eight or ten feet from the ground. Out of the stem there come not less than fifteen or sixteen limbs, many of which are from five to six feet round, and each of which would in fact be considered a decent stick of timber. I am not judge enough of timber to say anything about the quantity in the whole tree; but my son stepped the ground, and, as nearly as we could judge, the diameter of the extent of the branches was upwards of ninety feet, which would make a circumference of about 300 feet. The tree is in full growth at the moment. There is a little hole in one of the limbs, but with that exception, not the smallest sign of decay The tree has made great shoots in all parts of it this last summer, and there are no appearances of _white_ on the trunks such as are regarded as the symptoms of full growth. There are many sorts of oak in England: two very distinct. One with a pale leaf, and one with a dark leaf; this is of the pale leaf." Any other references to the age or history of this tree would oblige. TILFORDIENSIS. P.S. As your correspondent asked for information as to the _species_ of large oaks, I have inclosed some of the acorn-cups. ST. PAUL'S QUOTATION OF HEATHEN WRITERS--ST. PAUL AND PLATO. (Vol. v., p. 175.) The letter at Vol. v., p. 175. of "N. & Q.," reminds me of a passage in a _Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles_, by the Rev. W. G. Humphry, B.D., which it may not be uninteresting to cite, in connexion with what your correspondent says of St. Paul's practice of quoting the writings of heathen authors. It will be the ground also of an obvious query as to the source from which the quotation, if such it be, was borrowed by the Apostle. In commenting upon v. 17. of chap. xiv., οὐρανόθεν, &c., he says: "Both the language and the rhythm of this passage lead to the conjecture (which does not appear to have been proposed before) that it is a fragment from some lyric poem. Possibly the quotation is not exact, but even without alteration it may be broken into four lyric measures, thus: "Οὐρανό|θεν ἡ|μῖν ὑ|ετοὺς δίδους καὶ καιροὺς | καρποφόρους, ἐμπι|πλῶν τρο|φῆς καὶ | εὐφροσύνης | τὰς κα|ρδίας. "1. Iambic; 2. Dochmaic and Choriamb.; 3. Trochaic; 4. Choriamb. and Iambic." Mr. Humphry has some remarks on St. Paul's quotations at v. 28. of chap. xvii. OXONIENSIS. Broad Street, Oxford.