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SICILY AND MALTA. 119
cupied by solid timber—But there is no
appearance of bark on the inside of any
of the slumps, nor on the sides that are
opposite to one another. Mr, Glover and
I measured it separately, and brought it
exactly to the same size; viz. 204 feet round.
If this was once united in one solid stem, it
must with justice indeed have been looked
upon as a very wonderful phenomenon in
the vegetable world, and was deservedly
styled the glory of the forest.
I have since been told by the Canonico
Recupero, an ingenious ccclesiastic of this
place, that he was at the expencc of car-
rying up peasants with tools to dig round
the Castagno de Cento Cavalli, and he as-
iures me, upon his honour, that he found
all these stems united below ground in one
root. I alleged that so extraordinary an
object must have been mentioned by many
of their writers. He told me that it had,
and produced sevcral examples; Philateo,
I 4 Carrera, ,
cupied by solid timber—But there is no
appearance of bark on the inside of any
of the slumps, nor on the sides that are
opposite to one another. Mr, Glover and
I measured it separately, and brought it
exactly to the same size; viz. 204 feet round.
If this was once united in one solid stem, it
must with justice indeed have been looked
upon as a very wonderful phenomenon in
the vegetable world, and was deservedly
styled the glory of the forest.
I have since been told by the Canonico
Recupero, an ingenious ccclesiastic of this
place, that he was at the expencc of car-
rying up peasants with tools to dig round
the Castagno de Cento Cavalli, and he as-
iures me, upon his honour, that he found
all these stems united below ground in one
root. I alleged that so extraordinary an
object must have been mentioned by many
of their writers. He told me that it had,
and produced sevcral examples; Philateo,
I 4 Carrera, ,