160 Gilpin's forest scenery. 



contained in the top ; there were made out of it 

 eighty pair of naves for wheels, and 8660 feet of 

 boards and planks. It cost, at a time when 

 labour was much lower rated than it is now, 

 101. 17s. for sawing. The whole substance was 

 computed to weigh ninety-seven tons. 



If I chose to lengthen my catalogue of cele- 

 brated trees, I might produce an innumerable 

 host of such as have been mentioned casually by 

 historians and travellers in all ages ; as the Plane- 

 tree hanging over the Temple of Delphos, which 

 Theophrastus supposes was as ancient as the 

 times of Agamemnon — that, also, by which So- 

 crates used to swear — the Olive-tree at Linturnum, 

 planted by Scipio Africanus — the Tilia of Basil, 

 under which the German emperors used to dine — 

 the Malus medica at the Monastery of Fundi, 

 reverenced by Thomas Aquinas — the Oak at 

 Bruges, which Francis the First immured — the 

 Lime tree in Sweden, which gave name to the 

 family of the celebrated Linnaeus — trees which 

 Captain Cook found in the western parts of Cali- 

 fornia, measuring sixty feet in circumference, and 

 rising to the height of one hundred and fifty feet 



