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expressed by a mill constructed with great simplicity, and the 

 boiled into jaggaree. 



The bamboo, (bambusa, Lin.) flourished near the rivers in 

 the Bhaderpoor districts; it is a beautiful and very useful plant, 

 common in most parts of India and China: it does not attain the 

 laro;est size in Guzerat; but there the thick stems and smaller 

 branches are converted to various purposes; building, furniture, 

 baskets, and utensils. In Malabar, those of large dimensions 

 are formed into arches, by training them, while vegetating, over 

 an iron frame of the shape required, to support the canopies of 

 palanquins. Some bamboos, of large diameter and a lofty arch, 

 are valued at five or six hundred rupees. 



I mentioned the wedded-banian-tree at Salsette; it is not un- 

 common in this part of Guzerat, and causes a singular variety in 

 vegetation. Colonel Ironside describes a very curious one in the 

 province of Bahar, among the other banian-trees, which he says 

 are creepers; as is the peipal, orficus religiosa, which often springs 

 round different trees, particularly the palm; and observes that the 

 palmyra growing through the centre of a banian-tree looks ex- 

 tremely grand; it frequently shoots from old walls, and runs alon<> 

 them. On the inside of a large brick well, one of these trees lined 

 the whole circumference of the internal space, and thus actually be- 

 came a tree turned inside out. Under this tree sat a fakeer, a 

 devotee. He had been there five and twenty years, but did not 

 continue under the tree the whole time; his vow obliging him to 

 lie, during the four coldest months, up to his neck in the Ganges; 

 and to sit, during the four hottest months, close to a large fire. 



A banian-tree thus inverted is uncommon, but their general 



