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prodigious height and nine feet in diameter, 

 is not to be compared to one in this country, 

 which grew at Depenam, in Norfolk, ten 

 miles from Norwich, which measured near 

 the ground forty-eight feet in circumference, 

 or sixteen feet diameter ; and at some dis- 

 tance higher it girthed thirty-six feet, and in 

 the least part of the trunk it measured twen- 

 ty-five and a half feet, and was to the upper- 

 most branch, ninety feet in height. (The 

 measurement of this tree was sent to Evelyn 

 by Sir Thomas Brown of Norwich.) 



Switzerland is celebrated by Evelyn for its 

 enormous linden-trees, many of which remain 

 sacred to this day. He particularises the fa- 

 mous linden at Zurich ; as also one at Scha- 

 louse, under which was a bower composed 

 of its branches, capable of containing 300 

 persons sitting at ease, and so thick was the 

 foliage that the sun never penetrated. 



There is a prodigious linden now standing 

 in the village of Prelly, in the canton of Vaud 

 in Switzerland, under whose shade the rural 

 entertainments of these amiable and interest- 

 ing people are held. Each village of this 

 canton is governed by twelve men, who are 

 chosen to maintain the observance of the 

 laws ; and it was beneath the extending 

 branches of this celebrated tree that the mu- 



