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III. 



Hindoo Peasant ascending the Cocoa-nut Tree, to draw the Tari, or 



Toddy. 



The mode of extracting the Palm wine, or Toddy, is fully described in 

 this work; to the Cocoa-nut tree the pot containing the liquor distilled in 

 the night is affixed, for the peasant to pour into a larger vessel. In the 

 fore-ground is a banana tree; and a Hindoo temple overshadowed by a 

 banian tree, with other oriental scenery, in the distance. 



IV. 



Tiew taken tinder Cubbeer-Burr, the celebrated Banian Tree in 



Guzerat. 



This engraving from one of larger dimensions was copied from a drawing 

 made on the spot ; and contains about a sixteenth part of that beautiful 

 production the Ficus Indica, growing on an island in the river Nerbudda. 

 This umbrageous canopy is supported by three hundred and fifty large 

 trunks, and upwards of three thousand smaller, all traced to one parent 

 stem: the branches extend over a circumference of two thousand feet, and 

 afford shelter to six or seven thousand persons, as particularly described 

 p. 28, Vol. I. 



V. 



Monkeys in the Concan and Guzerat. 



The Monkey family delineated in this plate was drawn from nature, 

 under Cubbeer-Burr, the celebrated banian tree near Baroche, where 

 they abound, and furnished the interesting anecdote mentioned at p. 27, 

 Vol. I. There seems very little difference in the generality of these ani- 

 mals in the Concan and Guzerat. Malabar affords several varieties. 



