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Show A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. Chap. XXX. Chap.XXX. A Difcourfe of Forett-Trees, , To which add thofe would contain two hundred men a piece rg,under whofe vince)hehi usd to feaftte Wint his c whole Retinue hien ini e nit, chufing rather to lodge prodigious shade they fo often feaft, and celebrate end Antiquity ; rever becaufe they are all of them noted for their rs, as the neareft honou e Diviz paid for to fach Trees it feems they ate, as Quintilian vetuft ex Emblems of Eternity , @ tanquam facros which is celebras » be fé Cypre/ that might {peaks : And like to thefe : . ted by Virgil, neer to another Monument refer him that has a defire 5. But we will {pare our Reader , and undoubted Records our to multiply examples of this kind , to thofe where he fhall read of 16. Lib. Chap, 44. his in Naturalift mentions s the Raminal Fig-tree Cerrus in hides ee aad oh Later fate ae by oo ble Fracafforius in his Poem ee % apaeaied faperannuated Tilia’s nowat Bafil,and that of Aufputheir Weddings; us Lott Scipio Africanus’s Olive-Trees 3 Dian The flix of prodigious lafting (as Tacitas calculated 840: years: ining onit imported 5 rema n iptio \n{cr antiquity, as the Hetrufcian (of which But Paufanias in bis Arcadies , thinks the Samian Vitex Plataz the and ing, grow s Tree t oldef already) to be one of the a wang oe with thefe, that nine fathom tddete: poke y Fofephus 2 Cofta; the Maftick-tree {ee d Fa by Sir Francis Drake , which was fourand thi eat aga € Thofe of Nicara fedscponsd guas andae Gambra 3 whi ch h 17 ‘bd niied Tania in Snstt perfons could hardlyt rt fnsiay (lays Pliny) Arbores tante proceritati untitr ut fagittisfuperari nequeant (and adds, which thi Bees material , and therefore add alfo) Heefacit ubertas foli ro oN e Aquaruns abundantia. Suchwere,thofe Trees in Care aed it] Memphis, ec. recorded by Théoifrafins &*c, and et ah sank n Palme , co evous with fet by Atenelans 5 to thefe he adds the Delia Aéinerva ‘@cording to by ed plant Olive the Apollo himfelf and Vatican Holm,thofe the ; l their tradition ; the over-grown Myrti whofe body was lum, Tufcu to neer , that ially efpec of Tyburtine, and height , the two and three hundted foot aneece ey oo defcrib’d by Captain Ligox, growingin our Plantations of = ee bados 5 or thofe goodlyAsafts of Fir which Ihave fe ae fur'd, brought from New-Exgland: and what Renie aa “ne hofe tmenty-fathags'd Antartic-Trees3; or thofe of which pia ee call a, whichrifing in their feveral Stems each of twe pg in compafs,andasfar diftant each from other, unite in the bole see teen foot height from the ground ,. compofing three ftatel chen, and thence afcending in a /haff of prodigious bulk and aiseadet Such Trees of 37 foot diameter (an incredible thing) Se. a j hie an huge Tree growing in the Ifland of Cyprus, which Ane tS fe : high found Timber : And upon Afount £tnain Sicily is a ner Id by them , the dre Caflayne from three Chefuut-Trees chee ftandin where in-the cavity of one yet remaining, a confiderable Flock of Sheep is comnysnlyfolded :- Kerchers words are thefe, as fe : by himfelf » Et fhiodforfan mesdo&uv videri polfit, oftendit wih ined q which he there enuthirty five foot about 5 befides divers others conjecture of the we fhall what And er: Chapt merates in a large eof he ftaid wher ation admir in age of Xerxes’s huge’ Platanus, fo many days5 by for men fand thou red hund many fo of h the marc certainly.a goodwhich the wife Socrates was us'd to frear 2 And ly Tree was a powerful attractive, when that prudent Confal, Paffierful age sie Crifpus fell in love with a prodigious Beech of a wonde andftature, and that wife Prince Francis the Firft, with Bituriges, Oak, which he caus'd to be fo curioufly immur’d at Larch,employ’d s’s Tiberin of n 6. We have already made mentio d and twenty hundre one of being which , iaria Nanmach the about coupting ,not {pace that all r diamete foot footin length, bare two ldiifey the top: To this might be added the Maft of DemetringsGa wafted which confifted ofone Cedar, And that ofthe Float which esWe ferenc Caligulas Obelisks out of42g ypt, four fathoms in circum which fas130 read alfo of a Cedar growing inthe Lfland of Cyprus, , whole ross Athens in Plane foot long, and 18 in diameter5 of the were Yetsexwhich , boughs the then farther Cubits extended 36 , Tree at famous moft that was r anothe ceedingly large s_ and fuch Veliternus , whofe arms ftretch’d out 80 foot from the ftem: But befides thefe were folid: Now if we will calculate from the Aollow, s thofe mention'd by Pliny, inthe Hercynian Foreft ; the German excava of Canoes or Punti fome old of had s) Indian (as nowthe : perfons fourty fome , thirty n ted 02k, which would well contai ing remain and ift, Natural the by ed record s Platanu Lician the And in compafs, long after his days , had a room init of eighty one feet ftones for it adorn’d with Fountains, ftately Seats and Tables of , that Lic#head and , body in both Tree usa feems it was fo glorio that Pronins Mutianus (three times Conful , and Governour of vince) Antagonift) {peaks of ad Gambre fluvium. Mathiolus foes nee unis Caftanca Corticen tante amplitudinis, ut inta caminte fr 1M in Caula, ¢ ommodi| ita AHELA rum grex a paftoribus > tanquam deretur. China Iuft, p. 185. And what may we conceive of sok Trees inthe Indias, one of whole Nuts hardly one man is abl ‘4 5 carry; and which arefo vaft , as they depend not like deh : Fr it bye Stalketrom the boughs, but are produc'd out ofthe vey flee aes of the Tree, and arefufficient to feed twenty perfons ata Weread ofacertain Fig in the Caribby Ifands which emits fuch fons eaeeee great Planks for Tables and Flooring are clefe out of them, without the leaft prejudice 7} ‘d of thefe do eafily thelter 200 ae In edeArey. ee Geog. 1. 15. talkes of fifty Horfmen under a Tree in India his words are dS ig én dStvdyw peonulereery curadoulaves izwbng arn i - of another that thaded fiveftadia at once; and in another Hice oa Ha, W hich held 24 foot diameter , and of a tage a nee eseiiaed all we have hitherto produc’d , is . we. é ind mention’din the late Chineze Hiffory (as ‘tis upon occalion of the Dutch Embafy) where theytell us of 2 a cer~ |