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T He great Cedar is a very big and high 
tree, not onely exceeding all other re- 
ft nous trees, and thofe which beare 
fruit like vnto it, but in his tallneffe and 
largenelfe farre furmounting all other trees : 
the body or trunke thereof is commonly of 
a mighty bigneffe, infomuch as foure men 
aTe not able to fathome it, as Theophraftus 
writeth : the barke of the lower part , which 
pyoceedeth out ofthe earth, to the firft yong 
branches or (hoots, is rough and harfh ; the 
reft which is among the boughes is fmooth 
and glib : the boughes grow forth almoft: 
from the bottome, and not farre from the 
ground, euen to the very top, waxing by de- 
grees Idler and (barter ftill as they grow 
higher, the tree bearing the forme or fhape 
of a Pyramide or fharpe pointed fteeple: 
thefe compafle the body round about in ma- 
nerofa circle, and are foorderly placed by 
degrees, as that a man may clymbe vp by 
them to the very top as by a ladder : the 
ieaues be fmall and round like thofe of the 
Pine tree,but fhorter,and not fo fharp poin- 
ted ; ail the cones or clogs are far fhorter and 
thicker than thofe of the Firre tree,compadl 
of (oft , not hard fcales , which hang not 
downewards , but (land vpright vpon the 
boughes, whereuntoalfo they are fo ftrong- 
. , . rr . , , , lyfaftned,as they can hardly be plucked off 
without breaking of fome part of the branches, as Bcl/onim writeth : the timber is exrreme hard, 
and rotteth not nor vvaxeth old : there is no wormes nor rottennefle can hurt or take the hard mat- 
ter °r heart of this wood, which is very odoriferous, and fomewhat red : Solomon King of the Iewes 
did therefore guild Gods temple in Ierufalem of Cedar wood : the Gentiles were wont to make 
their Diuels of Images of this kinde of wood, that they might laft the longer. 
% The Place. 
The Cedar trees grow vpon the fnovvie mountaines, as in Syria vpon mount Ltbanus, on which 
there remaine lome euen to this day, faith Bellonim, planted as is thought by Solomon himfelfe: 
they are likewife found on the mountaines Taurus and Amanus, in cold and ftony placestthe mer- 
chants ofthe fa .Tori e at Tripolis told me, that the Cedar tree groweth vpon the declining of the 
mountaine Libanus,neere vnto the Hermitage by the city Tripolis in Syria ; they that dwel in Sy- 
ria vie to make boats thereoffor want of the Pine tree. 
•If The Time. 
. T lc ^. e ^ ar trce reroaineth alwaies greene, as other trees which beare fuch manner of fruit : the 
timber ofthe Cedar tree, and the images and other workes made thereof, feeme to fweat and fend 
lorth moifture in moift and rainy weather, as do likewife all thathaue an oylie iuyce.as Tbeothra- 
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.. . , ^f The Names. 
This huge and mighty tree is called in Greeke j n Latine likewife Cedrus : in Engirt, Ce- 
ar, and Cedar tree. Ptwy,l,b. 2 4. cap. y . nameth it Cedrelatc.as though he fhould kyfednts ablest 
, ?, * Cedar Firre ; both that it may differ from the little Cedar.and alfo becaufe it is very 
like to the Firre tree. 
