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it's beauty without it's ftrength, and in it's 

 advanced age we have fome idea of it'sjtrengfb, 

 without it's beauty : the imagination therefore, 

 by joining together the two different periods of 

 it's age in this climate, may form fome con- 

 ception of the grandeur of the cedar, in it's 

 own climate, where it's ftrength and beauty are 



united. The beft fpecimen of this tree, I 



ever faw in England, was at Hillington, near 

 Uxbridge. The perpendicular height of it was 

 fifty-three feet ; it's horizontal expanfe ninety- 

 fix ; and it's girth fifteen and a half. When I 

 faw it, in 1776, it was about one hundred and 

 eighteen years of age; and being then com- 

 pletely clump-headed, it was a very noble, and 

 pi6lurefque tree. In the high winds about the 

 beginning of the year 1790, this noble cedar 

 was blown down. It's ftem, when cut, was 

 five feet in diameter, 



After the cedar, the ftone-pine deferves our 

 notice. It is not indigenous to our foil, but like 

 the cedar, it is in fome degree naturalized ; 

 tho in England it is rarely more than a puny, 

 half-formed refemblance of the Italian pine. 

 The foft clime of Italy alone gives birth to the 



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