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have been cut down whose diameter was so great that it was 
necessary to join two blades of a saw, each 6 feet 6 inches long, in 
order to fell them. The largest cedar upon Ciga was said to be 
95 feet in height from the ground to the first branches, and the 
stem varied from 5 feet 6 inches in diameter at the ground to 
3 feet at the top. Cedars being more remarkable for their girth 
than for their height, this height of 95 feet without branches, 
appears to me extraordinary. It is probable that when all the 
forests of Algeria are fully explored, cedars of a still larger 
diameter will be found. 
Loudon (Aboretum, vol. iv., p. 2426) says that the largest 
of two cedars which then remained in the Botanic Garden at 
Chelsea, was about 60 feet in height, and 5 feet in diameter at 
4 feet 6 inches from the ground, and the other was nearly as large. 
At Wilton House there were several fine cedars one hundred and 
seventy years of age, and one of them 8 feet 8 inches in diameter 
at 1 foot from the ground. The cedar at Donnington, which 
is only eighty years old, and which I have mentioned already, 
on account of the rapidity of its growth, is only 2 inches less in 
diameter. At Chiswick there was a cedar 70 feet in height, with 
a diameter of 4 feet 6 inches. The tallest cedar in England 
appears to be at Strathfieldsaye ; it was 108 feet in height, with a 
diameter of 3 feet. The tallest in the neighbourhood of London 
was at Claremont; it was 100 feet in height, with a diameter of 
5 feet 6 inches. The finest cedar in England is probably, aecord- 
ing to Loudon, at Syon; it is 92 feet in height, with a diameter 
at 3 feet from the ground of 8 feet, and the diameter of the spread 
of its branches is 117 feet. 
Climate, Exposure, and Soil.—It was believed for a long time 
that the Cedar of Lebanon was only indigenous to Mount Lebanon 
proper, about 18 miles east from Tripoli in Asia Minor. Miller 
says (Gardener's Dictionary, vol. iv., p. 348, 1768), “The cedar 
of Lebanon, celebrated from the earliest days, and which, a very 
remarkable fact, is not found in any other part of the world except 
on these mountains.” Nevertheless Pierre Belo, who travelled in 
the Levant towards the middle of the 16th century, and who 
first visited these cedars, saw some afterwards on Mount Amanus 
and on Mount Taurus. M. Bové, formerly director of the farm of 
Ibrahim Pacha at Cairo, during a botanical journey in Syria, in going 
from Tiberias to Damascus, found on the 11th of October 1832, 
between Sakhléhé and Der-el-Khamar, a forest of Cedars of Lebanon 
