The greater number of trees, although so lofty, are not more than three or four feet in circumference.

There are, of course, a few of much greater dimension.

Senhor Manuel was then making a canoe 70 feet in length from a solid trunk, which had originally been 110 feet long, and of great thickness.

The contrast of palm trees, growing amidst the common branching kinds, never fails to give the scene an intertropical character.

Here the woods were ornamented by the Cabbage Palm--one of the most beautiful of its family.