CEDAR TREE. 
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banon, and mentioned their situation upon the 
mountains ; but there are few upon whose accounts 
we can depend. When Rawolf travelled into Tur- 
key in 1574, he saw twenty-six of these trees upon 
the mountain ; but could not find any young ones 
to succeed them. In Maundrell’s time, that is to 
say, more than a century afterwards, the number 
was reduced to sixteen ; but later travellers assure 
us they have seen many of a small size distributed 
amongst the large ones. As a proof of the size to 
which these trees occasionally grow in their native 
soil, one of the largest was measured, and found to 
be thirty-six feet and a half in circumference, the 
branches at the same time covering a space of 
ground equal to a hundred and eleven feet in diame- 
ter : the stem is divided (about fifteen or twenty feet 
above the ground) into five branches, each of which 
is equal in size to a large arbour. According to 
Pocock, these famous cedars occupy the corner of a 
valley open to the north-east, and form a wood of 
about a mile in circumference, composed of trees of 
all sizes. 
In the garden of the Museum d’ Hist o.ire Naturelle, 
there is a cedar which was planted by Bernard de 
Jussieu in 1734 ; this plant was measured by Des- 
maret on the twenty-fourth of June 1802, (an in- 
terval of sixty-eight years) and its circumference, 
four feet and a half above the ground, was found to 
be seven feet six inches, consequently its diameter is 
two feet seven inches four lines : thus this fine tree 
