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does not seem so gross and debasing as the worship 

 of images, the work of men's hand." 



"Another day," said Mary, "the poor little 

 Hindoo children will be taught not to worship the 

 river Ganges, or the banyan-tree, but Him who 

 made all the beautiful groves and streams." 



" God grant it may be so," said her father. 



Henry now inquired whether tig-trees are of 

 any other use than to give fruit and shade ; and he 

 was told that they furnish India-rubber in great 

 abundance, and that in some of them their milky 

 fluid forms a wholesome beverage, giving them 

 the name of cow-trees. He was also told that the 

 PLANE tribe, containing fine timber trees, natives 

 of JBarbary, the Levant, and North America, and 

 represented in this country by the noble plane- 

 tree,* which affords so much shade, is not far 

 removed from the mulberry and fig, although its 

 juice is watery instead of milky. 



* Platanus orienialia. 



