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it is not very commonly found in that state of 

 grandeur in -whicli it is here described. Nor, 

 indeed, will it easily take that very regular form 

 without some little assistance from art. Instead 

 of the Indian herdsman, whom Milton introduces, 

 it is often, at this day, inhabited by a Bramin, who 

 builds his little reed-thatched shed against its 

 trunk, and amuses his leisure by directing its 

 lengthening branches into proper places, and form- 

 ing each into a regular arch. Here, dressed in a 

 long white tunic, the habit of his order, and 

 adorned with a fiowirig beard, he spends his 

 solitary hours in wandering among the verdant 

 alleys of his tree, scarce ever leaving its limits. 

 The inhabitants of the district resort daily to him 

 with the necessaries of life, and receive, in return, 

 his prayers and benedictions. 



There is a tree in the island of Java called the 

 Upas, or Poison Tree, which (in the history of 

 curious trees) should not be omitted, though the 

 accounts of it are so wonderful, that some have 

 esteemed them fabulous. They are given to the 

 public by a surgeon belonging to the Dutch East 

 India Company, of the name of Foersch, who was 



