age to become unweildy. Thus this mighty 

 plant flood many years in great flate, the 

 ornament of the town, the admiration of the 

 country, and fupported, as it were, by the 

 princes of the empire. At length it felt the 

 effects of war. Nieflad was furrounded by 

 an enemy, and the limbs of this venerable 

 tree were mangled in wantonnefs by the be- 

 fieging troops. Whether it flill exifl, I know 

 not : but long after thefe injuries, it flood a 

 noble ruin, difcovering by the foundations of 

 the feveral monuments, which formerly prop- 

 ped it's fpreading boughs, how far it's limits 

 had once extended. 



A plane of the fame enormous growth, is 

 mentioned by a late traveller*, at the city 

 of Cos. It flands in the center of the market- 

 place, and overfpreads the whole area of it. 

 But it's vafl limbs, bending with their own 

 weight, require fuppoit: and the inhabitants 

 of Cos have fupported them in a flill grander 

 flile, than the lime at Nieflad is. fupported. 

 The whole city is overfpread with ' the ruins 

 of antiquity i and fome of the choicefl co- 

 lumns of marble, and granite, which had for- 



* Voyage Pittorefque de la Grece. 



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