204: LIFE OF A TREE. 
deserves mention on account of its great age. 
A celebrated one is flourishing still in the 
island of Nerbuddah, and is called by the 
name of the Cubbeer Burr. It is supposed to 
be about three thousand years old: it possesses 
three hundred and fifty large trunks, and three 
thousand smaller ones; each of its branches 
is continually adding to this number by sending 
down roots which subsequently take root in the 
soil. The tree is in fact more like a forest than 
a tree, and is the dwelling-place of thousands 
of birds, insects and small animals. Its entire 
circumference is about two thousand feet; but 
from the fact just mentioned, namely, the con- 
tinual putting forth of new trunks, we are 
not justified in considering it as a single tree, 
but rather as a union of many _ separate 
ones. 
Before quitting the subject of the age and 
size of trees, a curious fact connected there- 
with may be mentioned. ‘The Americans, who 
are fond of anything striking and uncommon, 
published an account in one of their papers, 
some years since, of a singular exhibition then 
being shewn at the American Museum at New 
