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was not fpliced in the common mode, but 

 was converted in it's full dimenfions, into the 

 bowfprit of the Britannia, a new fhip of a 

 hundred and .ten guns j in which capacity, I 

 have heard, it ferves at prefent. This fir 

 was ninety-fix feet in length 5 and had, I 

 believe, the full diameter of Tiberius's larch. 



Maundrel tells us, that when he travelled 

 into the Eaft, a few of the old cedars of Lebanon 

 were ftill left. He found them among the 

 fnow near the higheft part of the moun- 

 tain. " I meafured one of the largeft of 

 them, fays he, and found it twelve yards, 

 fix inches in girt ; and yet found : and thirty- 

 feven yards in the fpread of it's boughs. 

 At about five or fix yards from the ground, 

 it divided into five limbs j each of which was 

 a mafly tree." 



A later traveller, Van Egmont, who vifited 

 the fcenes of mount Lebanon, feems alfo to 

 fpeak of the fame trees, which Maundrel 

 mentions. He obferved them, he fays, to 

 be of different ages. The old flandards had 

 low ftems ; growing like fruit trees. Whereas 

 the younger made a much more ftately ap- 

 pearance, not a little refembling pines. Of 



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