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innumerable lift of this kind I might fwell my 

 page : but I reject all fuch trees, as have either 

 been only cafually mentioned or have had their 

 value merely afcertained by a timber-merchant's 

 rule And yet all thefe have been trees famous 

 in their day ; fome of them are ftill alive ; and 

 if I were writing a biographical hiftory of trees, 

 I mould be glad to infert them, having a 

 reverence for them all. Where one tree attains 

 this noble growth ; and makes itfelf confpi- 

 cuous, thoufands, and ten thoufands reach 

 only, the ordinary fize of nature. The few 

 pages however at prefent on my hands, I 

 mould wifh to allot to fuch trees only, as have 

 fomewhat more of hiftory, and anecdote an^ 

 nexed to them. 



One of the moft celebrated trees on ancient 

 record, was an oriental plane, which grew in 

 Phrygia. It's dimenfions are not handed down 

 to us j but from the following circumftances, 

 we may fuppofe them to have been very ample. 

 When Xerxes fet out on his Grecian expedi- 

 tion, his route led him near this noble tree. 

 Xerxes, it feems, was a great admirer of trees. 

 Amidft all his devaftations in an enemy's coun-r 



try, 



