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aider its long duration, its out-stretching arms, 
shadowing beneficence, as emblems of the l*-, 
almost pay it divine honours. The Brahmins, 
" find a fane in every sacred grove," spend much 
time in religious solitude under the shade of the bam 
they plant it near the dewals, or Hindoo tempi's®’ 
perly called pagodas ; and in those villages where 
not any stracture for public worship, they place a jitf 
under one of these trees, and there perform a mor® 
evening sacrifice. ^ p! 
These are the trees under which a sect of nake 
sophers, called Gymuosophists, assembled in ArnaUp^jlji^ 
and this historian of ancient Greece, it is observed by 
in his Oriental Memoirs, affords a true picture of tb® 
Hindoos. “ In winter llie Gymnosophists enjoy 
of the sun’s rays in the open air ; and in summer, 
heat becomes excessive, they pass their time lU 
moist places, under large trees j which, according 
accounts of Nearchus, cover a circumference of h' , 
and extend their branches so far, that ten thous 
may easily find shelter under them.” ^ 
On the banks of the Narbudda, in the 
Guzzerat, is a banian tree, supposed by some 
the one described by Nearchus, and certainly ” 
to it. It is distinguished by the name of the Cub ^ ^ 
which was given to it in honour of a famous 
floods have, at various times, swept away 
pai t of this extraordinary tree j btit what still r ^ 
nearly two thousand feet in circumference, me®®'- 
the principal stems ; the over-hanging branch® H 
Struck down, cover a much larger space ; and un 
a number of custard-apple, and other fruit 
large trunks of tliis single tree amount to ^ 
and Jifty, and the smaller ones exceed three ^ 
of these is constantly sending forth branches ® ^ 
roots, to form other trunks, and become the 
future progeny. Ilih.^^^si'',' 
The CuBBEER Burr is famed throughout jts 
not only on account of its great extent, but ® j'-y 
passing beauty. The Indian armies generally 
It ; and, at stated seasons, solemn jatarras, 
festivals, to which thousands of votaries repa**^ 
