which is the length of Tiberius's larch ; 

 tho it had not probably the circumference of 

 that tree. 



The mails of our (hips of war, at prefent, 

 are never made of fingle trees. It is the 

 method to lay two or three trees together, 

 and fitting them clofe to each other, to bind 

 them tight at proper diftances with pitched 

 ropes, and collars of iron. But a very noble 

 fir was lately brought into England, which 

 was not fpliced in the common mode, but 

 was converted in it's full dimenfions, into the 

 bowfprit of the Britannia, a new mip of a 

 hundred and ten guns ; in which capacity, I 

 have heard, it ferves at prefent. This fir 

 was ninety-fix feet in length -, and had, I 

 believe, the full diameter of Tiberius's larch. 



Maundrel tells us, that when he travelled 

 into the Eaft, a few of the old cedars of Lebanon 

 were ftill left. He found them among the 

 fnow near the higheft part of the moun- 

 tain. " I meafured one of the largeft of 

 them, fays he, and found it twelve yards, 

 fix inches in girt ; and yet found : and thirty- 

 feven yards in the fpread of it's boughs. 



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