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believed in the country, he tells us, that 

 Menelaus coming to Caphiae to raife forces 

 for the Trojan war, planted this tree with 

 his own hands, Paufanias travelled through 

 Greece in the reign of Antoninus Pius, who 

 fucceeded to the empire, A. D, 1 5 1 . So that the 

 age of the tree, wheu Paufanias faw it, muft 

 have been about a thoufand, three hundred years* 



I fhall next exhibit another plane-tree of 

 great celebrity, which flourifhed in Lycia, 

 during the reigns of the Roman Csefars, 

 From a vaft ftem it divided into feveral huge 

 boughs ; every one of which had the confe- 

 quence of a large tree ; and at a diftance the 

 whole together exhibited the appearance of a 

 grove. It's branches ftill flourifhed, while its 

 trunk decayed. This in procefs of time moul- 

 dered into an immenfe cave, at leaft eighty 

 feet in circumference; around the fides of 

 which were placed feats of pumice ftonej 

 cufhioned foftly with mofs. This tree was 

 firft brought into repute by Licinius Mutianus, 

 governor of Lycia. Licinius was a curious 

 man ; and not unverfed in natural hiflory. 

 Pliny, from whom we have the account of the 



4 tree, 



