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If I chofe to lengthen my catalogue of 

 celebrated trees, I might produce an innu- 

 merable hofl of fuch as have been mentioned 

 cafually by hiftorians, and travellers, in all 

 ages : as the plane-tree hanging over the 

 temple of Delphos, which Theophraftus fup- 

 pofes was as ancient as the times of Agamemnon 

 that alfo by which Socrates ufed to fwear 

 the olive-tree at Linturnum, planted by Scipio 

 Africanus the tilia of Bafil, under which the 

 German emperors ufed to dine the malus 

 medica at the monaftery of Fundi reverenced 

 by Thomas Aquinas the oak at Bruges, 

 which Francis the firft immured the lime- 

 tree in Sweden, which gave name to the family 

 of the celebrated Linnaeus trees which captain 

 Cook found in the Weftern parts of California, 

 meafuring fixty feet in circumference, and 

 rifmg to the height of one hundred and fifty 

 feet without a fingle knot folid trees, which 

 have been fcooped into canoes, capable of 

 holding thirty or forty men ; particularly one, 

 on record, at Congo, which held two hun- 

 dred. I might add alfo Arthur's table, in the 

 county-hall of Winchefter, which has been 



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