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Madras Bank.| |47.

The People’s Park, Madras.| |48.

Banyan Tree.| |49.

The Same.| Madras has a Corporation much after the European plan, and is a clean, well drained city with many public amenities. Here, for instance, is the electric tramway in front of the Madras Bank. Here we have a view in the People’s Park, with a group of sambur within an enclosure. One of the most remarkable and typical of ornamental trees in India is the banyan, with drooping branches, whose suckers take root when reach the ground, giving the effect of a grove, though in fact but a single tree.

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Banyan Avenue.| Here is a banyan tree seen from without and from within, and here a banyan avenue at Madras.

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Grain Sellers, Madras.| |52.

Men ploughing, Madras.| |53.

Covered Bullock Cart, Madras.| Before leaving Madras, let us look at three scenes of native life. Here are grain sellers, and here, outside the city, are men ploughing. Here we see the typical covered bullock cart.

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Map of India, distinguishing Madras, Mysore, Cochin, and Travancore.| |55.