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mous height. Some of it's branches ſhoot forth horizontally from the trunk; and from them proceed at number of leſs boughs, that fall in a perpendicular direction, downwards, taking root from other bodies, which, like pillars, ſerve to ſupport the arms they ſprung from. Thus, one tree multiplies into twenty or thirty bodies, and ſpeards over a great ſpace of ground, ſufficient to ſhelter, at leaſt, five hundred perſons. Neither is this, nor any other of the Indian trees, without leaves all the year. Under the branches of the banian, the Gentoos frequently place their images, and celebrate their feſtivals; and the Faquirs inflict on themſelves, different kinds of puniſhment. Mil-
ton,
