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Rose wood is heavy, red, has a fine fmell, 

 has black and light veins, and is very dear. 

 A certain fpecies of light-brown wood is much 

 eileemed here, and the Europeans have cherts 

 made of it. All tea-boxes are made of a foft 

 fort of wood, which cracks in the fire like 

 firr; and, as it isufed to contain tea, the Chi- 

 nefe call it Tia-mock, or the Tea-tree. The 

 light-brown wood, of which Europeans get 

 cherts made for their cloaths, is fold pretty dear. 

 I bought a chert of five feet long, two feet 

 broad, varniflied over, and plated with brafs, 

 to-lay my cloaths in, for ioo dollars of copper. 

 Chefs-boards of rofe-wood, inlaid with ivory 

 and black ebony, were to be fold here. 



Shaupann is the Chincfc name of that fort 

 of wood of which they make coffins, which 

 are almoft every where of an equal breadth, 

 and therefore are more like our bee-hives * 

 than our coffins : the fides and the lids of 

 them are of planks of the thicknefs of fomc 



y In Snxedaiy and in the northern countries, a bee-hive 

 confifts of a piece of fir-wood of about five or fix feet length, 

 excavated on one fide like a canoe ; and then a board is 

 clapped before this long hollow, with a fmail hole in it, for 

 the bees to go in and out. F. 



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