gratifying to ftrangers, we therefore marched 

 on, in tacit obedience, relying upon his guid- 

 ance ; and our perfeverance was amply recom- 

 penfed by viewing the great chief of the foreft 

 — an enormous tree of the Tonquin bean, which 

 appears in lofty and majeftic trunk, extending 

 its high-exalted foliage above the hofts of af- 

 piring rivals that furround it. The body forms 

 an immenfe perpendicular pillar riling to the 

 height of, perhaps, 70 or 80 feet before it 

 throws out a (hoot or a bud, then fpreading 

 its wide-expanded branches in proud canopy, 

 fo elevated as to protedt from the reach, and 

 even to conceal from the eye, the nuts which 

 contain its fweet-fcented beans* Viewing 

 this huge tree with regard to its ftraight and 

 perpendicular trunk, its immenfe bulk, and, 

 above all, its prodigious height, it may be con- 

 fidered as one of the fineft fpecimens of vege- 

 table produ&ion growing on the face of the 

 globe. In beauty and grandeur it is equalled 

 only by the ftately meuntain-cabbage, whofe 

 majeftic trunk, and fine palmated foliage, 

 ftand unrivalled in the vegetable world. 



The trees grow to a fize in thefe forefts 

 not readily to be imagined by perfons who 



