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chefnut is of fuch renown, that Brydone tells 

 us, he had feen it marked in an old map of 

 Sicily, publimed a hundred years ago*. 



Among other authors, who mention this 

 tree, Kircher gives us the following account of 

 it's condition in his day ; which might be 

 about a century before Brydone faw it; 

 " Oftendit mihi viae dux, unius caftanias 

 corticem, tantas magnitudinis, ut intra earn 

 integer pecorum grex, a paftoribus tanquam 

 in caula commodiffima, noctu intercluderetur." 

 From this account, one mould imagine, that 

 in- Kircher's days the five trees were more 

 united, than when Brydone faw them. 



At Nieftad, in the duchy of Wirtemberg, 

 flood a lime, which was for many ages ib 

 remarkable, that the city frequently took it's 

 denomination from it, being often called 

 Nieftad ander grafjen linden, or Nieftad near 

 the great lime. Scarce any perfon palled near 

 Nieftad, without viliting this tree ; and many 

 princes and great men did honour to it, by 



* See Brydone's trav. vol. i. p. 117. 



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