beauty; which arifes from the horizontal growth 

 of it's branches, forming a kind of fweeping, 

 irregular penthoufe. And when to the idea 

 of beauty, that of ftrength is added by the 

 pyramidal form of the ftem, and the robuft- 

 nefs of the limbs, the tree is complete in all it's 

 beauty, and majefty. 



In thefe climates indeed we cannot expect to 

 fee the cedar in fuch perfection. The foreft 

 of Lebanon is perhaps the only part of the 

 world, where it's growth is perfect : yet we 

 may in fome degree conceive it's beauty and 

 majefty, from the paltry refemblarices of it at 

 this diftance from it's native foil. In it's youth, 

 it is often with us a vigorous thriving plant ; 

 and if the leading branch is not bound to a 

 pole, (as many people deform their cedars,) but 

 left to take it's natural courfe, and guide the 

 ftem after it in fome irregular waving line ; 

 it is often an object of great beauty. But in 

 it's maturer age, the beauty of the Englifh 

 cedar is generally gone, it becomes fhrivelled, 

 deformed, and ftunted; it's body increafes; 

 but it's limbs fhrink, and wither. Thus it 

 never gives us it's two leading qualities to- 

 gether. In it's youth we have fome idea of 



it's 



