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a mile in circumference, which consists of some large 

 Cedars that are near to one another, a great number of 

 young Cedars, and some pines. The great Cedars at some 

 distance look like very large spreading Oaks ; the bodies 

 of the trees are short, dividing at bottom into three or 

 four limbs, some of which, growing up together for about 

 ten feet, appear something like those Gothic columns which 

 seem to be composed of several pillars : higher up they 

 begin to spread horizontally. One that had the roundest 

 body, though not the largest, measured twenty-four feet 

 in circumference ; and another with a sort of triple body, 

 as described above, and of a triangular figure, measured 

 twelve feet on each side. The wood does not differ 

 from white deal in appearance, nor does it seem to 

 be harder. It has a fine smell, but is not so fragrant 

 as the juniper of America which is commonly called Ce- 

 dar ; and it also falls short of it in beauty. I took a 

 piece of the wood from a great tree that was blown 

 down by the wind and left there to rot. There are fifteen 

 large ones standing." 



From Pococke , s visit, to the commencement of the pre- 

 sent century, we have no particular details of these cele- 

 brated trees. In 1813, Kinneir* states, that he met with 

 no Cedars except upon Lebanon, where they amount to 

 four or five hundred in number. Wolff, in the " Mission- 

 ary Journal" for 1823 and 1824, describes his visit to 

 Lebanon, where he counted thirteen large and ancient 

 Cedars, besides numerous smaller ones, amounting in all 

 to three hundred and eighty-seven trees. Again, Bucking- 

 ham, in his " Travels Among the Arab Tribes in 1825," 

 speaking of his visit to the Arz-el-Lebinien, or Cedars 

 of Lebanon, says: — " There are at present, I should think, 



* Travels in Asia Minor, &c. in 1813 and 1814. 



