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Rh height. Some of it's branches hoot forth horizontally from the trunk; and from them proceed at number of les boughs, that fall in a perpendicular direction, downwards, taking root from other bodies, which, like pillars, erve to upport the arms they prung from. Thus, one tree multiplies into twenty or thirty bodies, and peards over a great pace of ground, ufficient to helter, at leat, five hundred perons. 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 fetivals; and the Faquirs inflict on themelves, different kinds of punihment. ton,