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stem, sustain'd by 28 columns : Nor that nearer us, 

 at Cleves in the Low-Countries, a little without the 

 entring into the town, cut in 8 faces supported with 

 pillars, and containing a room in the middle, the 

 head of the tree curiously shap'd : I say, I need not 

 have charg'd this paragraph with half these, but to 

 shew how much more the lime-tree seems to be 

 dispos'd to be brought into these arborious wonders, 

 than other trees of slower growth : And yet I am 

 told of a white-thorn at Worms in Germany, planted 

 in the centre of the quadrangle of the great church, 

 whose branches held up with stone, is in circle 50 

 paces : Several more occur too tedious to recite : But 

 what is all this, take the most spreading of them, to 

 what we shall shew, whilst that of Nustradt comes 

 not yet by forty foot near to the dimensions of an 

 oak standing lately in Worksop-Park, belonging to 

 his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshall of 

 England, spreading almost 3000 yards square, and 

 under the shade whereof near a thousand horse might 

 commodiously stand at once. But, besides this gi- 

 gantic lime-tree, there is likewise a white-thorn, 

 brought (as the tradition goes) a small twig, out of 

 Palestine, anno 1470. by Eberhard, first Duke of 

 Wirtemberk, and planted near Tubing, where he 

 founded St. Peter's monastery, the branches whereof 

 being sustain'd by forty columns of stone, is yet a 

 flourishing tree : 'Tis probable that of Glastenbury is 

 of this kind, and above a thousand years ancienter, if 

 the report be true. At Forti grows a filbert whose 

 trunk is as big as three mens middles : Near Essling 

 is a juniper-tree of almost two foot diameter in the 

 lower trunk, and very tall : These prodigies, with 

 several more we have from Dr. Faber, physician to 



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