means. proportionable to its breadth. Apanson calculates 
as follows: That a tree of 
1 year old is 1 In. or 13 In. diameter, 5 In. in height. 
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The roots, again, are of a most extraordinary length, 
having numerousramifications. In a tree, whose trunk was 
only ten or twelve feet high, with a trunk seventy-seven 
feet in circumference, Apanson has determined the main 
branch, or tap-root, to be one hundred and ten feet long. 
A figure of the whole tree may be seen in a beautiful vig- 
nette, at p. 141, of Lord Macarrney’s Embassy to China, 
drawn from a fine specimen in St. Jago, one of the Cape de 
Verd islands. The foliage there, indeed, is not so abun- 
dant as to conceal the vast proportion of the trunk, but it 
often happens, that the leaves are so numerous, and the 
branches spread out, drooping at the extremities, to such a 
degree, that the trunk is almost entirely concealed, and the 
whole forms a nearly hemispherical mass of verdure, from 
one hundred and forty to one hundred and fifty feet in 
diameter, and sixty or seventy feet high. | 
The wood is pale coloured, light, and soft, so that, in 
Abyssinia, the wild bees perforate it, for the purpose of 
lodging their honey in the holes, which honey is reckoned 
the best in the country. I know not that the wood itself is 
applied to any particular purpose, but the Negroes on the 
eastern coast of Africa employ the trunks in a certain state to 
a very extraordinary purpose. The tree is subject to a 
riicular disease, owing to the attack of a species of 
Fores: which vegetates in the woody part, and which, 
without changing its colour or appearance, destroys life, 
and renders the part so attacked, as soft as the pith of trees 
in general. Such trunks are then hollowed into chambers, 
and within them are suspended the dead bodies of those 
who are refused the honor of burial. There they become 
muminies, perfectly dry and well preserved, without any 
further preparation or embalmment, and are known by the 
name of guiriots. ‘Vein 3 
