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breaks up into separate masses, the original 

 trunk decaying, and the props becoming separate 

 trunks of the different portions. Lady Faulkland 

 tells us of the Western Coast, that about eight 

 miles from Waee is a Banyan tree, covering a 

 space of three and three-quarter acres. The shade 

 was so complete, she could sit in the middle of 

 the day without any covering on her head. 

 Several separate picnic parties might take place 

 under the tree without interfering with each other. 

 There were countless avenues, or rather aisles, 

 like those of a church, the pale grey stems being 

 the columns, which, as the sun fell on them, 

 glittered in parts like silver, and here and there 

 were little recesses like chapels, where the roots 

 from the boughs formed themselves into delicate 

 clustering pillars, up and down which little squirrels 

 were chasing each other ; while large monkeys 

 were jumping from bough to bough, the boughs 

 cracking and creaking as they leaped. 



