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branches, which grow near the summit of the tree, are 

 much used here by the Jews, upon their Feast of Taber- 

 nacles : these they usually gild, and adorn with various 

 flowers, and then carry them in procession to their syna- 

 gogue." He adds, "whether this is the same kind of 

 palm that was used by the Israelites, we know not ; or 

 whether it is not here succedaneously used as bearing the 

 nearest resemblance to it." 



