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succeeds. The tree rises quite upright, and grows faster 

 than the Scots fir; the leaves are longer and of a finer 

 green ; and the wood is heavier and more resinous *. The 

 largest of the pine tribe on the hillocks, is a Cedar of 

 Lebanon, P. Cedrus, the trunk of which measures twelve 

 feet in circumference. The history of this tree, as re- 

 cited to us by Professor Thouin, is remarkable. In 

 1736, Bernard de Jussieu, when leaving London, re- 

 ceived from Peter Collinson, a young plant of Pinus Ce- 

 drus, which he placed in a flower-pot, and conveyed in 

 safety to the Paris garden. Common report has magni- 

 fied the exploit, by declaring, that Jussieu carried it all 

 the way in the crown of his hat. It is now the identical 

 tree admired for its great size. During one of the revolu- 

 tionary turmoils, a random cannon-ball unfortunately shat- 

 tered its head : this has considerably disfigured it ; but it is 

 spreading its lateral branches very widely. The stone- 

 pine, P. Pinea is about 20 feet high; the Aleppo, P. 

 halepensis, between 50 and 60. The specimens of P. ma- 

 ritima and pendula are also excellent. The monument 

 here erected to Daubenton is certainly not worthy of its 

 object ; while that placed to the memory of Linnaeus, under 

 the great cedar, was destroyed many years ago, and has not 

 been restored, the pedestal continuing, however, to mark its 

 site. We ascended the largest butte, by a winding path 

 commonly termed the Labyrinth. At the top is a pavilion 

 or kiosque, provided with seats ; and a porter is in readiness 

 to lend the visitant a telescope, and to point out the prin- 

 cipal objects seen in the distance around. Between two 

 large branches of the Cedar of Lebanon, the Cemetery of 

 J 'ere La Chaise is finely seen. The sloping bank of this 



• Pot further particulars regarding the Pinus Laricio, and for a minute 

 i . - rlption, taken from the specimen on the buttes by Mr Don, see Appen- 

 dix, No. IX. 



