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Residents of the "corn l^clt" have long boasted of the fertililv of their river bottoms: the existence off 

 I he sycamore here shown stands near the bank of the White River, in a field belonging to Solomon , 

 IS at the right. The tree is subject to frequent inundation, when the White River overflows its banj 

 the tree. It is entirely possible that this pcricjdical inundation, like that of the Nile, is partlv respoi 

 has attained unusual size; old settlers tell of a svcamore, long since gone, which measured 67 feet in (i 

 foresters declare that not to be the case: its unusual f(jrni is due to the fact that at an early age it bi 



