BAOBAB-TREES. 191 
travellers have found yet larger trees, and one 
is described as having a circumference of up- 
wards of one hundred feet. The great branches 
are themselves like large trees, and spread out 
from the trunk with great regularity all round. 
BAOBAB-TREE. 
In the centre a branch rises up straight, and 
thus by the intermingling of innumerable boughs, 
the immense tree comes to wear something of 
the look of a colossal mushroom, or its top re- 
