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NATURAL HISTORY READER. 



leaves on a single tree, the stalk of each leaf being eight 

 feet long, and the broad leaf itself being about six feet long. 



The Traveler's Tree. \^1S=~'- T ***~ 



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The whole of these twenty-four %' 



bright-green, gigantic leaves, a. 



spread out like a fern at the 



top of a trunk thirty feet high, presented a spectacle as 



impressive as it was rare and beautiful. " 



4. The chief distinction of the tree is that during the 

 most arid season it contains a large quantity of pure, fresh 



