hundred and fifty feet of timber, -making the whole about eight hundred cubic feet. Mr Strutt, who gives us an admirable etching of this tree, in his superb work the Sylva Britannica, tells us, that it was some years ago destined to be cut down by a person who had purchased the ground. The trench was dug, the saw-pit prepared, and the ax almost lifted up for its destruction; but all the respectable inhabitants of the place were so excited at the prospect of losing the tree, that he was actually shamed into the abandonment of his design. At Whitton, in Middlesex, a remarkable cedar was blown down in 1779. It had attained the height of seventy feet, and the branches covered an area of one hundred feet in diameter. The trunk was sixteen feet in circumference at seven feet from the ground, and twenty-one feet at the insertion of the great branches twelve feet above the surface. There were ten principal limbs, averaging twelve feet each in girth. Some attribute this tree to the age of Elizabeth. Some cedars planted in a favourable soil at Lord Carnarvon's at Highclerc, have grown with great rapidity. Of the cedars planted in the Royal Gardens at Chelsea in 1683, two had in eightythree years acquired a circumference of more than twelve feet, at two feet from the ground, while their branches extended over a circular space forty feet in diameter. Seven and twenty years afterwards, the trunk of the largest had increased more than half a foot in circumference. The Chelsea cedars are most picturesque trees; and there are still more magnificent trees of this kind at Whitton Park, Zion House, Pains Hill, Warwick Castle, Stowe, Blenheim, and other places.

But the cedar seems to thrive fully as well, if not better, in Scotland than in England. A cedar of Lebanon, at Niddrie Marischall, near Edinburgh, at eighteen inches above the ground, measures eight feet two inches in girth; and at six feet up, it is ten feet four inches. A cedar of Lebanon, in the grounds of Mr Burn Callendar, at Prestonhall, in the county of Edinburgh, measures, at one foot from the ground, eleven feet six inches in girth; at three feet from the ground, it is ten feet round; and at four feet, it is nine feet nine inches. Dr Walker, late Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh, measured a cedar of Lebanon at Hopetoun House, the printed essay says, in 1797, but manifestly an erratum for 1779. He found its circumference to be five feet one inch. He says farther, that it was larger than two other trees of the same kind, and of the same age, which he