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Tapering concur not to make diameters, as in quadri- 

 trees lateral and sexangular intersections. 



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Now if for this order we affect coniferous 

 and tapering trees, particularly the cypress, 

 which grows in a conical figure; we have found 

 atree not only of great ornament, but, in its es- 

 sentials, of affinity unto this order : a solid rhom- 

 bus being made by the conversion of twoequi- 

 crural cones, as Archimedes hath defined . And 

 these were the common trees about Babylon, 

 and the East, whereof the ark was made: and 

 Alexander found no trees so accommodableto 

 build his navy: and this we rather think to 

 be the tree mentioned in the Canticles, which 

 stricter botanology will hardly allow to be cam - 

 phire. 



And if delight or ornamental view invite a 

 comely disposure by circular amputations, as 

 is elegantly performed in hawthorns, then will 

 theyanswerthe figures made by the conversion 

 of a rhombus, which maketh two concentrical 

 circles; the greater circumference being made 

 by the lesser angles, the lesser by the greater. 



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