Account of a large Tree hi India. 3^9 



41. To examine the reafon of the fingular connexion 

 obferved between mines of fait or fait fprings and mountains 

 of gypfum *. 



[To be contiivjed.] 



IV^. Account of a large Tree hi India. By Colonel 

 Ironside \. 



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>Y the fide of the Ganges, abovit three miles above the 

 fortrcfs of Allahabad, near the fmall pagoda of a goffcir 

 CfakirJ, I faw, on the 31ft of November 1777, four trees 

 called kulberich ; the trunk of one of which appeared of fo 

 uncommon a fize, that I fent for a firing' to meafure its di- 

 HienfionSj and found the circumference of it to. be thirty 

 feet ten inches. Its height is that of a pretty large beech, 

 the rind or bark even, annulated and pulpy ; and all the 

 limbs fmooth and very large, but rather fcant of foliage; 

 thofe very fmall branches which bore leaves being in cluf- 

 ters, fo that the tree, at fome diftance, feemed not unlike a 

 ficm of the thick fpecies of coralline. The leaves are the 

 fize of oak leaves, but not finuated, and of a light though 

 not bright green ; the fruit is of the fame colour, in fliape 

 almofl conical like a pine, nine inches long, eleven inches 

 tnd a half round the moft fwelling part, and with a foft 

 velvet rind. Not being in bloifom at that fcafon, I had no 

 opportunity to obferve the flower. The fakir told me that 

 there were only thofe four within 700 miles of the place ; 

 the feeds of them, which arc fliapcd like a kidney bean, and 

 as lar^e as a caravanfa, having been fent for by one of the 



* And particularly of gypfum coloured by a red argil. To examine 

 alffi why afph iltcs is commonly found in the neighbouiliood of iait-pits. 



41. To obferve the different tlHorefcence of the diHerent falts formed 

 on the rocks and the furface of the earth, in order to dLttrmiiie their na- 

 ture. 



4 J. To note alfo tlje nature, the abundance, and what may be difco- 

 ^crcd in regard to the origin of mineral waters: to determine the tempe- 

 f.iture of ihcm. C. 



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