The expanded heads of the lofty trees cast a dark shade

TCD MS 10515 folio 40v

TCD MS 10515 folio 40v

[April 28th 1916]row channels of irrigation lead inward beneath the shade of magnificent and luxurious groves. The expanded heads of the lofty trees cast a dark shade over the reflecting waterways and the sun struggling in between the drooping fronds, illuminates the underlying verdure with varied greenish hues. These palms are all alike, but each is so stately; each spreads its leafy tuft so nobly from the summit of its straight branchless trunk, that the regularity of the plantation and the similarity of each tree to its companions does not produce a sense of monotony but rather of wonder at the perfection with which each tree clings to the ordained type. No dense undergrowth binds trunk to trunk, though, in the more fertile areas, vines entwine their tendrils about the