. The young lady's library of useful and entertaining knowledge : intended as a holiday or birth-day present. iches, corresponding with the arches, appear abovethe frieze* of the second gallery, while the dome springsfrom the arch of these niches. It is melancholy to reflect, that the possession of the tombof Ilim who came to preach peace on earth and good-willamongst men, should have been so violently disputed as tohave cost seas of blood ; and it is to be feared, that manysuperstitious persons place more reliance on the merits ofa pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre, than on those of awell-spen
. The young lady's library of useful and entertaining knowledge : intended as a holiday or birth-day present. iches, corresponding with the arches, appear abovethe frieze* of the second gallery, while the dome springsfrom the arch of these niches. It is melancholy to reflect, that the possession of the tombof Ilim who came to preach peace on earth and good-willamongst men, should have been so violently disputed as tohave cost seas of blood ; and it is to be feared, that manysuperstitious persons place more reliance on the merits ofa pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre, than on those of awell-spent life. ADMONITORY APOPHTHEGMS. Make your heart your happiest home, and you willalways be in the best company; for your thoughts willnever drive you into dissipation by self-reproach. Consider the wise as the most honourable part of society,and the virtuous as the wisest Shun the company of all from whose lips you hear excel-lence ridiculed and set at naught. * An architectural term. The frieze is the middle portion of theentablature or superstructure to a column. THE RELIGIOSA, BANIAN, OR BURR TREE. 243. THE RELIGIOSA, BANIAN, OR BURR TREE. The Banian, or Indian fig tree, one of the most beau-tiful and delightful specimens of vegetation that the earthproduces, is a native of several parts of the East Indies,and immediately attracts the attention of a traveller bothby its extraordinary appearance, and as a shelter from thescorching rays of the sun. As though it were intended toflourish alone, and independent of every other tree, itforms of itself a grove, affording a most delightful retreatto the heated and fatigued pedestrian. Nor is this theonly service which this remarkable tree renders to theanimal creation; for its fruit, which consists of a smallberry of a bright scarlet colour, although of little use tomankind, affords ample sustenance to a vast number of 244 THE RELIGIOSA, BANIAN, OR BURR TREE. monkeys, squirrels, peacocks and other birds, who take uptheir residence in
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