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65 In the district of Rosieny, on the estate of Paszkiewicz, the

Rural Secretary, grew an oak known under the name of Baublis,

which was formerly, in pagan times, honoured as a sacred tree. In

the interior of this decayed giant Paszkiewicz has founded a

cabinet of Lithuanian antiquities.

66 Not far from the parish church of Nowogrodek grew some ancient

lindens, many of which were felled about the year 1812.

67 [Jan Kochanowski (1530-84) was the greatest poet of Poland up

to the time of Mickiewicz. Czarnolas was his country estate, on

which he passed in retirement the closing years of his life. In a

famous epigram he tells of the charms of his linden tree:-