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pings, and used finally as light-wood, yields the more 

 in tar and pitch. 



Together with it, but in greater plenty farther in- 

 land, grows the Rosemary-Pine * so-called, which has 

 but two needles, and short ones ; and yields vastly less 

 turpentine than the other, nor for so long a period. 

 The name Yellow-Pine is given in this country for the 

 most part to the rosemary-pine ; but others hold that 

 this is a particular variety of the pitch-pine, distin- 

 guished by a thinner, smoother back, a softer, yellower 

 wood, somewhat shorter needles, a straighter and less 

 branching growth, and that the variety may be dis- 

 cerned quite young and makes a better house-timber. 

 Others again give the name yellow-pine only to very 

 old pitch-pines, and believe that the tree makes no 

 good timber until then. It is difficult to get a clear 

 notion of the many names, varieties, and sub-varieties 

 of this region. 



The products of these trees having long brought in 

 good returns to the province, there have always been 

 official inspectors appointed to look into the quality 

 and purity of the turpentine and give attestation. In 

 addition, the wood of these forests is made into boards, 

 shingles, cask-staves &c, dressed and exported, and to 

 this end there are already a good many saw-mills 

 established in the country. The means of gain, within 

 the reach of every owner of such a tract of wood-land, 

 being so manifold and so easy, it is certainly no hard 

 matter to grow rich in a short time, if it is regarded as 

 indifferent in what state one leaves the land to his 

 heirs. 



* Pinus virginiana; Jersey- Pine; two-leaved Pitch-pine 

 von Wangenheim's Beytrtige, 74; Marshall's Amer. Gr., 102. 



