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In this defcription two of the principal 

 chara&eriftics of the cedar are marked. 



The firft is the multiplicity, and length 

 of his branches. Few trees divide fo many 

 fair branches from the main ftem ; or fpread 

 over fo large a compafs of ground. His boughs 

 are mulitiplied, as Ezekiel fays, and his branches 

 became long ; which David calls fpreading abroad. 

 His very boughs are equal to the Jiem of a fir, 

 or a chefnut. 



The fecond characterilKc is, what Ezekiel, 

 with great beauty, and aptnefs, calls his Jha- 

 dowing Jhroud. No tree in the foreft is more 

 remarkable than the cedar, for it's clofe-woven, 

 leafy canopy. 



Ezekiel's cedar is marked as a tree of full, 

 and perfect growth, from the circumftance 

 of it's top, being among the thick boughs. 

 Every young tree has a leading branch, or two, 

 which continue fpiring above the reft, till the 

 tree has attained it's full lize : then it becomes 

 in the language of the nurfery-man, clump- 

 beaded -, but, in the language of eaftern fub- 

 limity, it's top is among the thick boughs ; that 

 is, no diftindtion of any fpiry head, or leading 

 branch, appears : the head and the branches 

 are all mixed together. This is generally, in 



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