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integer pecorum grex, a paftoribus tanquam 

 in caula commodiflima, noftu intercluderetur." 

 From this account, one fhould imagine, that 

 in Kircher's days the five trees were more 

 united, than when Brydone faw them. 



At Nieftad, in the duchy of Wirtemberg, 

 flood a lime, which was for many ages fo 

 remarkable, that the city frequently took it's 

 denomination from it, being often called 

 Nieftad ander gra/en linden, or Nieftad near 

 the great lime. Scarce any perfon parted near 

 Nieitad, without vifiting this tree ; and many 

 princes and great men did honour to it, by 

 building obelifks, columns, and monuments 

 of various kinds around it, engraved with their 

 arms, and names, to which the dates were 

 added, and often fome device. Mr. Evelin*, 

 who procured copies of feveral of thefe monu^ 

 mental infcriptions, tells us, there were near 

 two hundred of them. The columns on which 

 they were fixed, ferved alfo to bear up the 

 vaft limbs of the tree, which began through 



* See Ev. Sylva, p. 225. 



age 



