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compass of ground. His houghs are multiplied, as 

 Bzekiel says, and his branches became long ; wliicli 

 David calls spreading abroad. His very boughs 

 are equal to tHe stem of a Fir, or a Chestnut. 



The second characteristic is what Bzekiel, with 

 great beauty and aptness, calls his shadoiving 

 shroiid. No tree in the forest is more remarkable 

 than the Cedar for its close-woven, leafy canopy. 



Bzekiel's Cedar is marked as a tree of full and 

 perfect growth, from the circumstance of its top 

 being among the thich boughs. Bvery young tree 

 has a leading branch or two, which continue spiring 

 above the rest till the tree has attained its full 

 size : then it becomes in the language of the 

 nurseryman clump-headed; but, in the language 

 of Bastern sublimity, its top is among the thick 

 boughs ; that is, no distinction of any spiry head 

 or leading branch, appears : the head and the 

 branches are all mixed together. This is gene- 

 rally, in all trees, the state in which they are most 

 perfect and most beautiful : and this is the state 

 of Bzekiel's Cedar. 



But though Bzekiel has given us this accurate 

 description of the Cedar, he has left its strength. 



