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shadowing shroud, and of an high stature, and his top 
was among the thick boughs. His boughs were mul¬ 
tiplied, and his branches became long. The fir trees 
were not like his boughs, nor the chestnut-trees like his 
branches, nor any tree in the garden of God like unto 
him for beauty.” “ In this description of the prophet,” 
says Gilpin, “the two principal characteristics of the 
cedar are marked: first, the multiplicity and length of 
its branches; and, secondly, its close-woven leafy canopy, 
when, having attained its perfect growth, no distinction 
of any spiry head or leading branch appears; but, in the 
language of Eastern sublimity, ‘its top is among the 
thick boughs.’ ” 
But wemust reluctantly turn from these notices of sacred 
literature to those of science, and state, as briefly as the 
subject will allow, a few other points in its natural history. 
Though there are many sylvan aspirants to the title 
and dignity of the cedar, there are in fact but two 
species of this genus,— the cedar of Lebanon (Pinus 
cedrus), and the Indian cedar (Pinus deodara), neither 
of which are known in the European market as a timber 
tree. The cedar partakes of the nature and character 
both of the pine and larch; the leaves are evergreen 
like those of the former, but smaller, less glossy, and 
not so blue in colour; whilst they resemble the latter 
