cowthorpe

Updated: May 21, 2025

If the "great elm" and the Cowthorpe oak, if the State-House and St. Peter's, were taken on the same scale, and looked at with the same magnifying power, we should compare them without the possibility of being misled by those partialities which might tend to make us overrate the indigenous vegetable and the dome of our native Michel Angelo.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859