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cepting the senators, were obliged to rise in 
honour of his garland. He had also the 
more advantageous, if less honourable, pri- 
vilege of being exempt from civil burdens 
and imposts from the time he received it. 
The Druids showed a reverential homage 
to the Oak; worshipping under its form 
their god Teut. 
The victims offered in the sacred groves of 
Britain were crowned with oak leaves, and 
the funeral pile was also constructed of the 
hallowed wood. 
The Oak is still the pride of our wood- 
lands, and no one who gazes on the ancient 
monarchs of the forest, which count their 
centuries of existence, such as those in 
Ampthill Park, &c. &c. can fail to com- 
prehend something of the reverence with 
which the Druids and their pupils gazed 
upon the tree of Jove. 
While the beautiful South thus revelled in 
tender and mournful flower-legends, some- 
thing weird and awful was cast around them 
by the sterner Northern races. 




