THE SYCAMORE TREE. 
at an elevation of ten feet above tLe ground. TTie whole 
height of the tree was not much above sixty -five feet, Tlis 
trunk divided in numerous upright branches, terminating 
in tufts of evergreen leaves, resembling those of the 
pine-apple. 
Kest to the baobab and the dracsena, the Sycamore 
holds a conspicuous rank among the giant trees of AMca. 
It attains a height of only forty or fifty feet, bat in the 
course of many centuries its trunk swells to a colossal 
Eixe, and its vast crown covers a large space of ground 
with an impenetrable shade. Its leaves are about four 
inches long and as many broad, and its figs have an 
escelieut flavour. In Eg}*pt it is almost the only grove- 
