pence, we cannot but admire its effects; which, in a tropical climate, are highly bene-ficial, both to the weary traveller and to the thirsty soil. Hence, the sight of a manga-tope is generally attended with the most pleasing anticipations!

Although mango-topes abound in every part of the lower provinces, their wood, except in bun-, galows, is rarely employed in European archi-lecture ; nor do the natives make much use of it as a timber; large quantities are every year cut up for planks, intended chiefly for very or- dinary purposes, where great strength and dura- bility are not essentials. The immense quanti-ties of fine bamboos, which ordinarily grow very straight to the height of sixty feet, or more though rarely measuring more than five inches -diameter near the root, and gradually tapering off as they ascend, supply the contented native with rafters, joists, posts, pillars, laths, and a great variety ef et ceteras, all tending either to his shelter, or to his convenience. The ordinary price of these invaluable reeds (for they are of the arundo tribe) may be from three-pence to five-pence each ; that is, generally from seven to twelve for a rupee, according to size and demand. Millions of them are annually brought to Calcutta, both by water, and on hackeries ; in the former instance, they, being remarkably buoyant, are floated in clumps, or, perhaps.