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Trees and beginneth circularly in the two first leaves be- 



15 low, while in the singular plant of ivy she exer- 



ciseth a contrary geometry, and beginning with 



angular leaves below, rounds them in the upper 



branches. 



Nor can the rows in this order want delight, 

 as carrying an aspect answerable unto the dip- 

 teros hypathros, or double order of columns 

 open above; the opposite ranks of trees stand- 

 ing like pillars in the cavedia of the courts of 

 famous buildings, and the porticoes of the tern- 

 pla subdialia of old ; somewhat imitating the 

 peristylia or cloister-buildings, and the exedra 

 of the ancients, wherein men discoursed, 

 walked, and exercised; for that they derived 

 the rule of columns from trees, especially in 

 their proportional diminutions, is illustrated by 

 Vitruvius from the shafts of fir andpine. And, 

 though the inter-arboration do imitate the ar- 

 eostylos, or thin order, not strictly answering 

 the proportion of inter-columniations : yet in 

 many trees they will not exceed the intermis- 

 sion of the columns in the court of the Taber- 

 nacle ; which being an hundred cubits long, 

 and made up by twenty pillars, will afford no 

 less than intervals of five cubits. 



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