 I could reckon up only sixteen, and the latter are very numerous. I measured one of the largest, and found it twelve yards six inches in girth, and yet sound, and thirty-seven yards in the spread of its boughs. At about five or six yards from the ground...  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Sida 151824Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Josiah Conder - 1824 - 774 sidor
...sixteen, and the latter are very numerous. I measured one of the largest, and found it twelve yards six inches in girth, and yet sound, and thirty-seven yards...The cedars," he says, " form a grove about a mile in cir. cumference, which consists of some large cedars that are near to one another, a great number of... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 sidor
...yards six inches in girth, and yet sound ; and thirty-seven yards in the spread of its boughs. At about five or six yards from the ground, it was divided...five limbs, each of which was equal to a great tree V The traveller Le Bruyn reckons about five or six-andthirty trees remaining on Mount Libanus when... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 598 sidor
...largest was twelve yards six inches in girt, and thirty-seven yards in the spread of its boughs. At six yards from the ground, it was divided into five limbs, each equal to a great tree.y Dr. Richardson visited them in 1818, and found a small clump of large and tall... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1824 - 604 sidor
...and twenty-seven yards in the spread of its boughs. At about five or six yards from the ground, it is divided into five limbs, each of which was equal to a great tree." Le Bruyn also tells us, that he had the curiosity to measure the bigness of two of the most remarkable... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1831 - 328 sidor
...yards six inches in girth, and yet sound; and thirty-seven yards in the spread of its. boughs. At about five or six yards from the ground, it was divided...five limbs, each of which was equal to a great tree. Descending the mountain, and rejoining his friends at Tripoli, they departed thence together, and returning... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - 1832 - 1060 sidor
...yards six inches in girth, and yet sound, and thirty-seven yards in the spread of its boughs. At about five or six yards from the ground, it was divided...five limbs, each of which was equal to a great tree." Pococke, in 1738, describes them with greater minuteness: "The cedars form a grove about a mile in... | |
 | William Ellis - 1836 - 228 sidor
...yards six inches in girth, and yet sound, and thirty-seven yards in the spread of its boughs. At about six yards from the ground, it was divided into five limbs, each of which was equal to a great tree. Pococke found one great tree blown down by the wind, and fifteen large ones standing, One that had... | |
 | rev William Ellis - 1836 - 288 sidor
...yards six inches in girth, and yet sound, and thirty-seven yards in the spread of its boughs. At about six yards from the ground, it was divided into five limbs, each of which was equal to a great tree. Pococke found one great tree blown down by the wind, and fifteen large ones standing, One that had... | |
 | Philip Miller - 1835 - 742 sidor
...yards six inches in girt, and yet sound, and thirty-seven yards in the spread of its boughs. At about five or six yards from the ground, it was divided...five limbs, each of which was equal to a great tree." — Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem. "What Maundrell has related." says Mr. Miller, " was confirmed... | |
 | John Carne, William Purser - 1836 - 210 sidor
...the left is the one that Maundrell says he measured, and found it twelve yards six inches in girth, and thirty-seven yards in the spread of its boughs...five limbs, each of which was equal to a great tree. They are difficult of approach, and are surrounded with deep snow, which is not passable until the... | |
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