Trees Plants And Flowers Where And How They Grow a Familiar History of the
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, the length and number of its branches, and the wide expanse and density of its shade. Few trees spread themselves so thickly upon every side. This is in consequence of the horizontal growth of the branches, which shoot out in great numbers from the parent stem, forming a deep and quite impenetrable shade. These branches sometimes droop so as almost to reach the ground. It is supposed that some of the trees still standing on Mount Lebanon are the remains of the forests from which Solomon obtai...ned the wood for the building of the Temple. These are protected with great care, and are accounted sacred by the inhabi- 11 122 THECEDAR OF LEBANON. tants. But they are gradually diminishing in num- bers, and almost every few years witnesses the removal of one or more of these interesting relics, which yield to decay that strength which has defied the blasts of ages. Of those whose appearance warrants the belief that they are the very Cedars under whose shade the Patriarchs of old have rested, in 1550 there remained about 28, in 1745 there were but 15.
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