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n8 A TOUR THROUGH
marked in an old map of Sicily, published
near an hundred years ago; and in all the
maps of iEtna, and its environs, it makes
a very conspicuous figure. I own I was
by no means struck with its appearance, as
it does not seem to be one tree, but a
bum of five large trees growing together.
We complained to our guides of the im-
polition; when they unanimoussy allured
us, that by the universal tradition and even
testimony of the country, all these were
once united in one item; that their grand-
fathers remembered this, when it was
looked upon as the glory of the forest, and
vilitedfrom all quarters 5 that for many years
pad it had been reduced to the venerable
ruin we beheld. We began to examine it
with more attention, and found that there
was indeed an appearance as if these five
trees had really been once united in one.
The opening in the middle is at prcsent pro-
digious; and it does indeed require faith
to believe, that ib vasta space was once oc-
cupied
marked in an old map of Sicily, published
near an hundred years ago; and in all the
maps of iEtna, and its environs, it makes
a very conspicuous figure. I own I was
by no means struck with its appearance, as
it does not seem to be one tree, but a
bum of five large trees growing together.
We complained to our guides of the im-
polition; when they unanimoussy allured
us, that by the universal tradition and even
testimony of the country, all these were
once united in one item; that their grand-
fathers remembered this, when it was
looked upon as the glory of the forest, and
vilitedfrom all quarters 5 that for many years
pad it had been reduced to the venerable
ruin we beheld. We began to examine it
with more attention, and found that there
was indeed an appearance as if these five
trees had really been once united in one.
The opening in the middle is at prcsent pro-
digious; and it does indeed require faith
to believe, that ib vasta space was once oc-
cupied