[2685] Pliny, no doubt, observes an analogy between the hair of the human head, and trees as forming the hair of the earth. The superstition here mentioned, Fée says, was, till very recently, observed in France to a considerable extent.
[2686] De Re Rust. 1, 37.
[2687] Terebinthine or turpentine.
[2688] “Ad fabrorum intestina opera medulla sectilis.” This passage is probably corrupt.
[2690] With reference to the fir, namely.
[2691] B. iii. c. 5.
[2692] B. iv. c. 3.
[2693] An additional proof, perhaps, that the cedar of the ancients is only one of the junipers, and that, as Fée says, they were not acquainted with the real cedar.