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cylindrical, rifing into a fiiperb and ftately 

 pillar, refembling a well-hewn column of 

 ftone. At the bale its circumference is fome- 

 what greater than at any other part, yet 

 leflening fo gradually, upwards, as to preferve 

 the moft juft and accurate proportion. Not 

 a lingle branch, nor even the llightefl: twig, 

 interrupts the general harmony of the trunk, 

 which often rifes, in a corred perpendicular, 

 to the height of from fixty to a hundred feet, 

 and then fpreads its pal mated foliage into a 

 wide and beautifully radiated circle. Branches 

 it has none, but the fine expanfive leaves, 

 Ihooting immediately from the fummit of 

 the ftately trunk, extend around it, crowning, 

 and, as it were, proteding the mafly column, 

 in form of a full expanded umbrella. 



It will perhaps occur to you that our 

 noble Englifli oak, with all its rude and 

 crooked limbs, muft be a more pidurefque 

 objed. So it is, and fo is like wife the wide- 

 fpreading filk-cotton : but the loftinefs, the 

 ftately grandeur, the exad proportion, and 

 the deep-fliading foliage of the mountain^ 

 cabbage are unequalled, and, in their happy 



