THE RED CEDAR, 
Botanical Name, Jimiperus Virginiana.* —Class, Dicecia. 
—Order, Monadelphia.—Native place, North America. 
Sentiment. 
INCOBEUPTIBILITY. 
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ORIGIN OF THE SENTIMENT. 
The Cedar wood was not only supposed by 
the ancients to be incorruptible, but they 
believed it preserved all things from corrup¬ 
tion which were inclosed in it; and the 
Egyptians employed the gum which exudes 
from its trunk in embalming the bodies of 
their deceased relatives. The moderns so 
* This tree, which yields the odoriferous pencil Cedar, 
is a distinct plant from the “ Cedar of Lebanon ” of the 
Scriptures. 
