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The first thing in our way that he saw there was “ a great and fair 
tree, of that kind which 1 (Della Valle) saw in the sea coasts of 
Persia, called there Lul, but here Ber.” Then follows a description of 
a Banyan tree, and of a little temple of “ Parvete’” (Parwati) under- 
neath it, Mr. Grey thinks that this was the famous “ Kabir Bar,” 
but that is not near Surat but near Broach. 
The tree Pietro had seen in Persia was probably the great Banyan 
of Gombroon, but without his earlier letters we can only guess at 
this, “Lul” or “Luli” is a Kolaba name for an imported Ficus 
resembling /. bengalens?s in habit, but with paler and more acuminate 
leaves and bright orange fruit. There are one or two fine specimens 
on the Esplanade at Tanna, where the ways part for Calcutta and 
Madras. 
Our author’s next botanism is as good a description of ** Pan- 
supari’ as any of us could give to-day, and a page or two further on 
he describes ‘‘ Trees of this climate, namely, Ambe, or, as others speak, 
Manghe, before described by me in my last letters from Persia, in 
the maritime parts whereof I saw some trees of this kind.” Are 
there Banyans and Mangoes in the hot coast-belt of Persia now ? 
Again, he notes that there is no flax in India, and is taken up by his 
Editor, because Linum usitatissinum is common, But the traveller 
was right, for he was talking only of the fibre, which is not yet 
used in India in spite of repeated experiments (quorum pars ego 
magna fui), From Surat Della Valle went to Broach and did not see 
the great Banyan tree, but did drink “ Tari, which is a liquor drawn 
from the nut-trees of India ; whitish and a little troubled ; of taste 
somewhat sourish and sweet too, not unpleasing to the palate * * 
yet it Inebriates as wine doth if drunk immoderately.” If you do not 
believe our traveller, ask the Commissioner of Customs or his 
dear friend Mr, Dantra. He noted (not Mr. Dantra, but Pietro) 
that in the neighbourhood was a mine of “ calcidoines and agates,” 
of which most went to “ Cambaia,” as they do to-day. 
Tken he marched North ‘“ to an arm of the sea, or, to speak better, 
to the inmost part of the Gulph of Cambaia, directly where the River 
Mahi falls into the sea, in which place the flux and reflux of the sea 
is more impetuous and violent,” &., &e. ; and then follows as good 
an account of the Bore of the Mahi and its fords as is in any modern 
