In this defcription two of the principal 

 characleriftics of the cedar are marked. 



The firft is the multiplicity, and length 

 of his branches. Few trees divide fo many 

 fair branches from the main ftem j or fpread 

 over fo large a compafs of ground. His boughs 

 are multiplied^ as Ezekiel fays, and bis branches 

 became long ; which David calls fpreading abroad. 

 His very boughs are equal to the ftem of a fir, 

 or a chefnut. 



The fecond characteriftic is, what Ezekiel, 

 with great beauty, and aptnefs, calls his fia- 

 doiving ftroud. No tree in the foreft is more 

 remarkable than the cedar, for its clofe-woven, 

 leafy canopy. 



Ezekiel's cedar is marked as a tree of full, 

 and perfect growth, from the circumftance 

 of its top, being among the thick buughs. 

 Every young tree has a leading branch, or two, 

 which continue fpiring above the reft, till the 

 tree has attained its full fize : then it becomes 

 in the language of the nurfery-man, clump- 

 headed-, but, in the language of eaftern fub- 

 limity, it's top is among the thick boughs ; that 

 is, no diftinclion of any fpiry head, or leading 

 branch, appears : the head and the branches 

 are all mixed together. This is generally, in 



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