. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . reat ainniiral, were but a \ The masts of our men of war are principallybrought from Riga ; but the White Pine (Pinussirobus) of North America is exclusively used for themasts of American shipping; and many fine treesare exported to this country for a similar purpose,principally from the district of Maine. Before theseparation of her North American colonies fromEngland, very severe ordinances were issued to pre-vent the cutting down of those firs adapted for masts,which were gTowing on the Cr
. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . reat ainniiral, were but a \ The masts of our men of war are principallybrought from Riga ; but the White Pine (Pinussirobus) of North America is exclusively used for themasts of American shipping; and many fine treesare exported to this country for a similar purpose,principally from the district of Maine. Before theseparation of her North American colonies fromEngland, very severe ordinances were issued to pre-vent the cutting down of those firs adapted for masts,which were gTowing on the Crown Lands. Theseordinances were issued as early as 171L At the beginning of the reign of Louis XVI., apine was extensively planted in France, Pinus lari-cio, which has the peculiar property of growing wellin a chalky soil. It is a very magnificent tree, butthe timber is not so strong as that of the Pinus syl-vestris. It has, however, been used in France forship-building. The Cedar of Lebanon (Pinus cedrus) would, ifthe rapidity of its growth were at all correspondent 58 VEGETABLE Cedar of Lebanon—Pinus cedrus. with its other quaUties, be tlie most ^ akiahle tree inthe forest. Its resistance to absokite wear is notindeed equal to that of the oak; but it is so bitter,that no insect whatever will touch it, and it seems tobe proof against Time himself. We are told that thetimbeWi the temple of Apollo at Utica was foundundecayed after the lapse of two thousand years; andthat a beam in the oratory of Diana, at Saguntum* inSpain, was fetched from Zante, two centuries beforethe Trojan war. Some of the most celebrated erec-tions of antiquity were constructed of this tree. Solomon raised a levy of thirty thousand men outof all Israel; and he sent them to Lebanon, tenthousand a month, by courses ; and he had threescoreand ten thousand that bore burthens, and fourscorethousand hewers in the mountains. And he coveredthe temple with beams and boards of cedar. And hebuilt chamb
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