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drawn from the Phrygian Plane. His pavilion 

 was spread under it, and he enjoyed the luxury of 

 its delicious shade, while the Greeks were taking 

 measures to defend Thermopjlse. The story may 

 not speak much in favour of the Prince ; but it is 

 my business only to pay honour to the tree.* 



In Arcadia, at the foot of the mountains 

 bounding the Stymphalian plains, (famous for one 

 of the labours of Hercules), stood the little town 

 of Oaphise ; and, just above it, rose a fountain, 

 called the Menalaid fountain; by the side of which, 

 Pausanias tells us,t grew a Plane Tree of extra- 

 ordinary size and beauty, called the Menalaid Plane. 

 It was generally believed in the country, he tells 

 us, that Menelaus coming to Caphiae to raise forces 

 for the Trojan war, planted this tree with his own 

 hands. Pausanias travelled through Greece in 

 the reign of Antoninus Pius, who succeeded to 

 the empire, a.d. 151. So that the age of the 

 tree, when Pausanias saw it, must have been 

 about a thousand three hundred years. 



I shall next exhibit another Plane Tree of 



* This account is taken from Elian. f Paus, Arcad., c. 23. 



