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A plane of the fame enormous growth, is 

 mentioned by a late traveller*, at the city 

 of Cos. It flands in the center of the market- 

 place, and overfpreads the whole area of it. 

 But it's vaft limbs, bending with their own 

 weight, require fupport : and the inhabitants 

 of Cos have fupported them in a ftill grander 

 ftile, than the lime at Nieftad is fupported. 

 The whole city is overfpread with the ruins 

 of antiquity; and fome of the choicefl co- 

 lumns of marble, and granite, which had for- 

 merly adorned temples, and porticos, have 

 been collected, and brought to prop the limbs 

 of this vaft tree. Tho the pidturefque eye 

 is not fond of thefe adventitious fupports, and 

 would rather fee the boughs bending to the 

 ground under their own weight > yet if they 

 are proper any where, they are proper in 

 fuch a fituation as this ; where the tree fills 

 the whole area of a market place with it's 

 extended boughs ; and is connected with the 

 houfes on every fide by the pillars, which 



fupport them. Some fuch idea as this very 



probably gave birth to that beautiful form in 

 Gothic architecture, of a circular room, whofe 



f Voyage pittorefque de la Grece. 



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