180 Gilpin's eoebst scenery. 



circular room whose dome is supported by a single 

 column rising from the centre and ramifying over 

 the roof. We have two or three such appendages 

 of cathedrals in England, under the name of 

 chapter -houses. The most beautiful I know is at 

 Salisbury, which I scruple not to call one of the 

 most pleasing ideas in architecture. The Plane at 

 Cos is greatly revered by all the inhahitants of the 

 city. Much of their public business is transacted 

 in the markct-placo. There, too, they liold tlieir 

 little social meetings, and we may easily conceive 

 the luxury, in such a climate, of a grand leafy 

 canopy to screen them from the fervour of the 

 sun. To add to the beauty and convenience of 

 this very delicious scene, a fountain of limpid water 

 bubbles up near the roots of the tree. 



As a parallel to these trees, I shall nest 

 celebrate the Lime of Oleves. This, also, was 

 a tree of great magnificence. It grew in an 

 open plain, just at the entrance of the city, and 

 was thought an object worthy to exercise the 

 taste of magistracy. The burgomaster of his day 

 had it surveyed with great accuracy, and trimmed 

 into eight broad, pyramidal faces. Each corner 



