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pinafter. The fweep of it's ftem is fimilar, 

 it's broken lateral branches likewife, and it's 

 clump-head. Both trees alfo are equally irre- 

 gular in their growth : but the pinafter is 

 perhaps more picturefque in the roughnefs of 

 it's dark-grey bark. On no trees have I feen 

 broader, and better varied maffes of light, and 

 fhade : but the clofenefs of the pinafter's foliage 

 makes it's head fometimes too heavy. 



The clufter-pine alfo is a beautiful tree, and 

 approaches perhaps as near the ftone-pine, as 

 the pinafter does. But I fcarce recollect ever 

 to have feen it in a ftate of full maturity, and 

 perfection. If we may judge however from a 

 growth of thirty or forty years, (at which age 

 I have ,often feen it) it moots in fo wild, 

 and irregular a manner; fo thick, rich, and 

 bufhy, that we may eafily conceive how 

 picturefque a plant it muft be in a ftate of full 

 perfection. It's cones too, which it bears in 

 clufters, from whence it derives it's name, are 

 a great ornament to it. In compofition indeed 

 fuch minutiae are of little value ; but we are now 

 confidering trees as individuals. 



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