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in some parts of the Levant (as of old near Troy) so 

 excellent, as it was after mistaken for cedar, so great 

 was the difference ; as now the Cantabrian, or 

 Spanish exceeds any we have elsewhere in Europe. 

 And we shall sometimes in our own country see 

 woods within a little of each other, and to all appear- 

 ance, growing on the same soil, where oaks of 

 twenty years growth, or forty, will in the same 

 bulk, contain their double in heart and timber ; and 

 that in one, the heart will not be so big as a man's 

 arm, when the trunk exceeds a man's body : This 

 ought therefore to be weighed in the first plantation 

 of copses, and a good eye may discern it in the first 

 shoot ; the difference proceeding doubtless from the 

 variety of the seed, and therefore great care should 

 be had of its goodness, and that it be gather'd from 

 the best sort of trees, as was formerly hinted, Chap, i . 

 9. Veterem arbor em transplantare was said of a 

 difficult enterprize ; yet before we take leave of this 

 paragraph, concerning the transplanting of great trees, 

 and to shew what is possible to be effected in this 

 kind, with cost and industry ; Count Maurice (the 

 late Governor of Brasil for the Hollanders) planted a 

 grove near his delicious paradise of Friburgh, con- 

 taining six hundred coco-trees of eighty years growth, 

 and fifty foot high to the nearest bough : These he 

 wafted upon floats and engines, four long miles ; 

 and planted them so luckily, that they bare abundantly 

 the very first year ; as Gasper Barloeus hath related 

 in his Elegant Description of that Prince's Expedi- 

 tion. Nor hath this only succeeded in the Indies 

 alone ; Monsieur de Fiat (one of the Mareschals of 

 France) hath with huge oaks done the like at Fiat. 

 Shall I yet bring you nearer home ? A great person 



