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upper part of them grows ere£l the fruit, 
like our pine-apples ; but they never drop 
in a whole ftate. It is faid there iffues from 
the trunk, in the warm months, a fort of 
white refin, which is very clear, of a grate- 
ful odour, and is called cedar gum : the 
large trees are faid to afford no lefs than fix 
ounces per day of this fubftance. The 
cones of the cedar, if preferved in time, 
will contain their feed for feveral years. 
They ripen moft commonly in the fpring, 
and are nearly twelve months old before 
they arrive to us from the Levant. To ma- 
nage the cedar plant, we refer our readers 
to Miller’s direftions, in his gardener’s dic- 
tionary. 
What is mentioned in Scripture, refped- 
ing the lofty cedar, cannot be applied to this 
tree ; which, inftead of rifing in height, is 
more inclined to extend its branches in 
breadth. Mr. Maundrel obftrves, that 
when he vifited mount Libanus, he only 
found fixteen large cedars remaining ; but 
that there were feveral young trees of a 
fnialler lize. One of the largeft he found to 
be twelve yards fix inches in circumference, 
and thirty-feven yards in the fpread of the 
boughs. At about five or fix yards from the 
ground, it was divided into five limbs, each 
being as large as a great tree. 
Cedar is faid to be proof againfl the pu- 
trefadion of all worms, or animal bodies. 
The faw-dull is thought to be ufed by thofe 
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