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ample umbrages, if diligently compar'd ; as I am to 

 impute it to what the younger l Pliny attributes to 

 mens affecting novelties, that tanta suarum rerum 

 satietas^ aliarumque cFoiditas. 



A poplar-tree not much inferior to this, he informs 

 me grew lately at Harling by Thetford, at Sir William 

 Gawdy's gate, blown down by that terrible hurrican 

 about four years since. 



But here does properly intervene the linden of 

 Schalouse in Swisse, under which is a bower composed 

 of its branches, capable of containing three hundred 

 persons sitting at ease : It has a fountain set about 

 with many tables, formed only of the boughs, to which 

 they ascend by steps ; all kept so accurately, and so 

 very thick, that the sun never looks into it : But this 

 is nothing to that prodigious tilia of Newstadt in the 

 Dutchy of Wirtemberg, so famous for its monstrosity, 

 that even the city it self receives a denomination 

 from it, being called by the Germans NEUSTADT 

 ANDER GROSSEN LINDEN, or Newstadt by the 

 great lime-tree. The circumference of the trunk is 

 27 foot 4 fingers : The ambitus or extent of the 

 boughs 403 fere ; the diameter from south to north 

 145, from east to west 1 19 foot ; set about with divers 

 columns and monuments of stone (82 in number at 

 present, and formerly above an hundred more) which 

 several princes and noble persons have adorn 'd, and 

 celebrated with inscriptions, arms and devices, and 

 which, as so many pillars, serve likewise to support 

 the umbragious and venerable boughs : And that even 

 the tree had been much ampler, the ruins and dis- 

 tances of the columns declare, which the rude soldiers 

 have greatly impair'd. 



1 L. 8. ep. 20. ad Gallium. 



