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Running up to about the same height as the 

 Graces, the trio stand in close proximity to each 

 other, and one of them, the Mother, is fat and 

 bulky, she is over fifty feet in circumference, 

 but her children beside her are slim and " lanky." 

 The " Siamese Twins," too, are great curiosities. 

 There are two sets of this particular species of 

 twins in this grove, the specimens in each being 

 a little under 300 feet high, both sets of twins 

 having the peculiarity of union some forty or fifty 

 feet above the ground, which makes them, indeed, 

 very wonderful curiosities. The greatest wonder, 

 however, has yet to be mentioned. This is a big 

 monster which has been purposely thrown, having 

 been severed six feet above the ground and a 

 pavilion built on the remaining stump, which has 

 been converted into a theatre and a ball-room. 

 On this stump, dramatic performances have been 

 held; and the surface having been properly 

 smoothed over, upon it a dance is indulged in 

 occasionally by the guests at the hotel, sixteen 

 couples having danced upon it at one time ; and 

 again, the cotillon has been performed upon it 

 by twenty couples ! We measured the dancing- 



