Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures, derived principally from the manners, customs, rites, traditions and works of art and literature, of the eastern nations : embodying all that is valuable in the works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the most celebrated oriental travellers . These trunks are de-scribed by Burckhardt as seeming to be quite dead ; theirwood is of a gray teint. Maundrell, in 1697, measured one,which he found lo be twelve yards and six inches in girth,and thirty-seven yards in the spread of its boughs : at al)ovefive or six yards from the ground it was divided into
Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures, derived principally from the manners, customs, rites, traditions and works of art and literature, of the eastern nations : embodying all that is valuable in the works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the most celebrated oriental travellers . These trunks are de-scribed by Burckhardt as seeming to be quite dead ; theirwood is of a gray teint. Maundrell, in 1697, measured one,which he found lo be twelve yards and six inches in girth,and thirty-seven yards in the spread of its boughs : at al)ovefive or six yards from the ground it was divided into fivelimbs, each of which was equal lo a great tree. Fortv-oneyears aflerward, (viz. 1738.) Dr. Pococke measured onewhich had the roundest body, though not the largest, andfound it twenty-four feel in circumference ; another, witha sort of triple body and of a triangular figure, measuredtwelve feet on each side. In 1818,Dr. Richardson meas-ured one, which he afterward discovered was not the lar-gest in the clump, and found it to t>e thirty-two feel in cir-cumference. Finally, in 1824, Mr. Madox rested underthe branches of a cedar, which measured twenly-scvcn feetin circumference, a liule way from the ground: after whichhe measured the largest of ihe trees now standing, which a ro. Chap. 11—14. ZECHARIAH. 569 he found to be Ihirly-nine or forty feet iu circumference: ithas three very large stems, and seven large branches, withvarious smaller ones. The cedars of Lebanon are frequently mentioned in thesacred writings. Besides their uncommon size and beautyof shape and foliage,(which must be borne in mind in orderto enter fully into the meaning of the sacred writers,) theysend forth a fragrant odour, which seems to be intended bythe smell of Lebanon. (Hos. xiv. 6. Sol. Song iv. 11.)Its timber was used in the erection of the first and secondtemple at Jerusalem, as well as of the palace of Solomon ;and in the last-mentioned edifice, .so much cedar-wood ap-pears to have been used,
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