'It made,' says a note by one of our party, 'other huge trees look like shrubs.' I am not surprised that my friend Mr.St.Luce D'Abadie, who measured the tree since my departure, found it to be one hundred and ninety-two feet in height.
I was assured that there were still larger trees in the island.

A certain Locust-tree and a Ceiba were mentioned.

The Moras, too, of the southern hills, were said to be far taller.

And I can well believe it; for if huge trees were as shrubs beside that Sandbox, it would be a shrub by the side of those Locusts figured by Spix and Martius, which fifteen Indians with outstretched arms could just embrace.

At the bottom they were eighty-four feet round, and sixty where the boles became cylindrical.