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FIG TREE. 
its shade. The English gentlemen* on their hunt- 
ing and shooting parties, used to form extensive en- 
campments, and spend weeks together under this 
delightful pavilion, which is generally filled with 
green wood pigeons, doves, peacocks, and singing 
birds : large families of monkeys live among its 
branches, and numbers of enormous bats are seen 
flitting beneath its ample shade. This tree, in the 
proper season, is covered with small figs of a scarlet 
colour, which serve to nourish the numerous inha- 
bitants that are found within its shelter. 
