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mid-air, and from the same point send oxit wide-spreading 

 brandies above and a complicated pjrramid of roots de- 



scending for seventy or eighty feet t-o the ground below, 

 and so spreading on every side, that one can stand in 

 the very ctaatre with the trunk of the tree immedintely 



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