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Dutchmen seem rather to bury them alive : In the mean time, is there 

 a more ravishing or delightful object, than to behold some entire streets 

 and whole tov^ns planted vi^ith these trees^ in even lines before their 

 doors, so as they even seem like cities in a w^ood ? This is extremely 

 fresh, of admirable effect against the epilepsy, for which the delicately 

 scented blossoms are held prevalent, and screen the houses both from 

 winds, sun, and dust ; than which there can be nothing more desirable 

 where streets are much frequented : For thus 



Stat Philyra ; baud omnes formosior altera surgit 

 Inter Hamadryadas ; molissima, Candida, laevis, 

 Et viridante coma et benevolenti flora superba, 



Spargit odoratam late atque sequaliter umbratn. couleii, lib. vi. PL 



The stately Lime, smooth, gentle, straight, and fair> 

 (With which no other Dryad can compare^) 

 With verdant locks, and fragrant blossoms deck'd. 

 Does a large, even, odorate shade project. 



DirSB and curses, therefore, on those inhuman and ambitious tyrants, 

 who, not contented with their own dominions, invade their peaceful 

 neighbours, and send their legions, without distinction, to destroy and 

 level to the ground such venerable and goodly plantations, and noble 

 avenues. Irreparable marks of their barbarity ! 



The distance for walks, as we said, may, in rich ground, be twenty- 

 five feet ; in more ordinary soil, eighteen or twenty. For a most 

 prodigious tree of this kind, see book iii. chap. iii. 



The berries, reduced to powder, cure the dysentery, and stop bleeding 

 at the nose. The distilled water is good against the epilepsy, apoplexy, 

 vertigo, trembling of the heart, and gravel. Schroder commends 

 a mucilage of the bark for wounds, and of the leaves and bark he 

 says, urinam ac menses cieni. I am told the juice of the leaves fixes 

 colours. 



