ON THE CEDAR OF LEBANON, ETC. 211 
to 70 feet in height, the girth of the thickest being 6 feet 7 
inches. 
Loudon (Arboretum, vol. iv., p. 2426) gives the dimensions 
of several Cedars of Lebanon growing in Great Britain, I will 
mention those of which he gives the age, and that have attained 
a large size relatively to their age, and from these the annual 
increase can easily be calculated. 
At Luscombe, a cedar thirty years planted was 47 feet in 
height, the trunk 2 feet 6 inches in diameter. At Farnham, 
fifty years planted, 70 feet in height, diameter 4 feet. At 
Ockham Park, thirty-four years planted, 45 feet in height, 
diameter 2 feet 6 inches. At Bowood, fifty years planted, 60 
feet in height, diameter 3 feet 6 inches. At Donnington Park, 
eighty years planted, height 62 feet, diameter 8 feet 6 inches. 
At Ditton Park, ninety years planted, 80 feet in height, diameter 
5 feet. At Castle Ashby, age eighty years, height 72 feet, 
diameter 5 feet. At Croome, eighty years planted, height 100 
feet, diameter 5 feet. The same author says that at Whitton, 
the Pinus maritimus, Scots fir, silver fir, and larch, growing in the 
same soil and situation as the cedar, have not made nearly as large 
a bole. It appears probable that many of the cedars in France 
and England have been grown from seed prematurely taken from 
the cones, and in consequence they cannot have attained the 
dimensions they would have done had the seed been perfectly ripe. 
In order to know the largest size to which these trees can attain, 
we must examine them in their native habitats,—and first of all on 
Mount Lebanon, where the oldest known cedars are found. M. 
L.-Deslongchamps says that Corneille Le Bruyer, a Dutch traveller 
who visited these cedars in 1682, measured one which was 57 
palms, or about 40 feet, in girth; that Maundrell, an English 
traveller, who visited them in 1697, measured one which he found 
36 feet 6 inches in girth; and quotes a letter in which Dr Pariset, 
a French traveller, who visited them on the 2nd of August 1829, 
says that he did not measure any of them, but that they appeared 
to him to be as large as the pillars in the Palace of Carnac at 
Thebes, which are 42 feet in circumference. In the forest of 
cedars that M. Bové found in travelling from Tiberias to 
Damascus, these trees were, he said, from 3 feet to 18 feet in 
girth, and their height over 50 feet. In Africa, in a forest of 
cedars near Blidah, there are some from 12 feet to 16 feet in girth 
at 3 feet from the ground. In the forests of Ouarenseris, cedars 
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