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two Paces from the Stem, sustained by twenty-eight Columns: Not Chap. III.that nearer us, at Cleves in the Low-Countries, a little without theentring into the Town, cut in eight Faces supported with ‘Pillars, andcontaining a Room in the middle, the Head of the Tree curiouslystiap’d : I say, I need not have charged this ‘Paragraph with halfthese, but to strew how much more the Lime-tree seems to be disposed tobe brought into these arborious Wonders, than other Trees of slowerGrowth : And yet 1 am told of a White-thorn at Worms in Germa-ny, planted in the Centre of the Quadrangle of the great Church ,whose Branches, held up with Stone, is in Circle fifty Paces: Severalmore occur, too tedious to recite : But what is all this, take the mostspreading of them, to what we shall shew, whilst that of Neuftadtcomes not yet by forty Foot near to the Dimensions of an Oak stand-ing lately in Worksop-Park, belonging to his Grace the Duke of Nor-folk, Earl Marshal o/’England, spreading almost three thousand Yardssquare, and under the Shade whereof near a thousand Horse mightcommodious!y stand at once. But, besides this gigantic Lime-tree ,there is likewise a White-thorn , brought (as the Tradition goes) a small /Twig out of Paleftine, Anno 1470, by Eberhard, first ‘Duke of Wir-temberg, and planted near Tubing , where he founded St. Peter’s Mo-nastery, the Branches whereof being sustained by forty Columns ofStone, is yet a flourishing Tree : ’Tis probable that of Glastenbury isof this Kind, and above a thousand Years antienter, if the Report betrue. At Forti grows a Filbert whose Trunk is as big as three MensMiddles : Near Essting is a Juniper-tree of almost two Foot Diame-ter in the lower Trunk, and very tall : These Prodigies, with severalmote we have from Dr. Faber, Physician to Frederic Duke of Wir-temberg , and collected by the late industrious Jesuit Schotti, in his Ap-pendix ad Lib. ii. De Mirabilibus Miscellaneis. Nor may here thatgoodly Birch-tree be forgotten, which growing in one of the Courtsof the Palace of Ausburgh , is so spreading, as that the Brancheswill cover three hundred and sixty-five Tables, even as many as thereare Days in the Year, with its Shade , as Tavernier tells us in his Tra-vels. Mr.. Cook , in his ingenious and useful Treatise , mentions a Witch-Elm growing within these three or four Years in Sir Walter Baggot’sPark in the County ot Stafford, which after two Men had been fiveDays felling, lay forty Tards in Length ; was at the Stool seventeenFoot diameter : It broke in the Fall fourteen Load of Wood, forty-eight Load in the Top : Yielded eight Pair of Naves , eight thousandfix hundred and sixty Foot of Boards and Planks: It cost ten Pounds,seventeen Shillings the sawing, the Whole esteemed ninety-seven Tuns :

'1 his was certainly a goodly Stick !

What other prodigious Trees do at present, and of late abound inthat Country, may be seen in Dr. Plot’s Natural History ; nay, someplanted in the Memory of Men of the Place, that have grown to a won-derful Procerity : Such was an Oak at Narbitry, of fifteen Tards inGirth, which being felled, two Men at either Side on Horse-back couldnot fee one another: And of an Ajh of eight Foot diameter, the Tim-ber of which was valued at 30 /.

11. Iam told of a very Withy-tree, to be seen somewhere in Bark-Jhire , which is increased to a most stupendious Bulk • and of two W'itch-hazel-trees of prodigious Size, growing in Oak fey.Park, belongingto Sir Edw. ‘P00les near Malmsbury in Wiltshire, not inferior to the

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