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at once calls up images of immobility and eternity. The 

 dragon's-blood tree of the Canaries awakens such thoughts. 

 Thrice famous for its strange look, its vast size, and its 

 antiquity, this dragon's-blood tree {Draccena Draco) is 

 equally so for the stationary condition of its groAvth. In the 



270. Dragoii's-ljloncl Tree of the Island of Teneriffe. 



legends of Teneriflfe we are told that this singular tree was 

 Avorshipped by the Cluanches,its original inhabitants; and it 

 is related that in the fifteenth century mass Avas celebrated 

 in the interior of its trunk, a fact even lately attested by 

 the vestiges A\diich AA^ere seen of a little altar. This tree 

 groAvs so sloAvly that after a tolerably long interval of 



