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gantic Dragon tree, which appears to have existed there for 



ccnliinrs; lor tr.idilion -.isscrls, !li;il. il, w;is of the s.mie dr,i- 

 metei when MM! island vviis conquered in the 15th century as 

 it id at present. 



Dragon Tree. 

 E8TIIKK. 



And what is that? 



MK8. F. 



Sixteen feet. Its height is now from 50 to CO foot, the 

 circumference near the root 45 feet; and what renders it the 

 morn singular that HUH truo should have attained so enor- 

 mous a size is, that it is not indigenous: the East Indies is 



itH triM! country, ;uul il. IH nowhere found on the <-(.niiii< ni .,1 

 Africa. Those, therefore, which are growing in the Cana- 

 ries, Madeira, and Porto Santo, prove from their age, that, 

 sit HOIIHJ very remote period, the i nlr,il> iUnlH iniiHt hiiv<: had 

 intercourse with other people originally from Asia.* 



MRS. r. 

 The Dracaena, with the Baobab, are probably among the 



* Humboldt'n Voyage, vol. i, p. 252. 



