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been dry and, with a fire near the entrance, warm enough.
My rese.irch carried me west. By the time settlers got to the Ohio River maybe they had just a bit more time to measure and record what they found. On record is a Sycamore with a hollow trunk so large that 44 men could stand on it! I admit that American frontiersmen, then and now, are prone to exaggeration. Still, that must have been a big tree.
Another is reported to have sheltered eleven horses. That was in the 17th century. In the early part of this century Sycamores in Kentucky were documented as large as 20 feet in diameter; that tree would measure about 62 feet around at about three feet from Ihe ground. Big tree. The American naturalist and writer, Edwin Way Teale, wrote in 1965 of a Sycamore in Kentucky with a diameter of eight feet. There are some big ones left.
Also reported on the Ohio River was a hollow Sycamore in which Aaron Burr supposedly met a lady — a lady married to another man. In those days even Burr needed a safe place for his assignations. More detail on this bit of history would be interesting; I wish I could locate and relate it to readers.
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