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O R O TA FA, 
PLATE LX IX. 
This plate is a representation of the colossal 
trunk of the dracoena draco in the island of 
Ten erilFe, mentioned by every traveller, but , which 
has never yet been engraved. It is between 
fifty and sixty feet in height ; its circumference 
near the roots is forty-five feet ; and it had at- 
tained this size, when the Spaniards landed first 
at Teneriffe in the fifteenth century. As this 
plant of the family of the monocotyledons grows 
extreinely slow, it is probable, that the dragon- 
tree of Orotava is older than the greater part of 
the monuments of which we have given a des- 
cription in this work. 
VOL. XIV. p 
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