Everlastingly renewing its youth, perpetually soaring to the sky, proudly overtopping all that grows, splendidly flourishing when meaner plants must fade from drought, this giant grass, which delights the eyes, takes rank as one of God’s noblest gifts to tropical man.
View on the Pasig with Bamboos and Canoe.
To face p. 6.
[1] England has 51,000 square miles area; Wales, 7378; Ireland, 31,759; Scotland, nearly 30,000. Total, Great Britain and Ireland, etc., 121,000 square miles.
[2] Worcester, p. 446, mentions Conifers at sea level in Sibuyan Island, province of Romblon.
[3] Called in Spanish the oropéndola (Broderipus achrorchus).