Ashley. After this there is frequent mention of timber exports. 

 Cedar appears to be highly valued.' 



Mr. Mathews^ seems to have been more interested in trees 

 than the other colonists, and in various letters to Lord Ashley 

 enumerates many, even occasionally distinguishing species, as: 

 ■'white, red, black water Spanish, & hue oak.'' Practically 

 no other mention of trees occurs in the Shaftesbuiy Papers. 



The early references to South Carolina trees we have seen to 

 be merely incidental in the narratives of explorers. Next came 

 a period of settlement when men's minds were concerned with 

 the practical questions of timber and cultivation. And fol- 

 lowing that we come to a period when every effort was being 

 made to draw colonists to the new country, and numerous pam- 

 phlets advertising the province were circulated in England. Sev- 

 eral of these are reprinted in Carroll's Historical Collections of 

 South Carolina,^ and give more extensive, though occasionally 

 unreUable, accounts of the trees than had before appeared. Sim- 

 ilar material is to be found in Ogilby's America, 1671; The 

 Present State of Carolina, by R. F., 1682; and in Carolina De- 

 scribed more fully than heretofore, by an anonymous writer, 

 1684. , 



JOHN LAWSON 



More ambitious than any of these and of greater scientific 

 value is Lawson's account of his voyage to Carolina.* He gives 

 the usual casual references to trees, but further, under a section 

 ' ' Of the Vegetables of Carolina, ' ' supplies a descriptive cata- 

 log of all trees known to him in Carolina. While employing few 



•Shaftesbury papers. 270. 'Ibid. 333. 335. 347, 354. 



• IWilson, Samuel.l An account of the Province of Caroiin* in America. 1682. 

 AlBhe). Tlhomas). Carolina. 1682. Archdale, .loha. A new description of that 



fertile and pleasant Province of Carolina. 1707. Purry. Peter. ... A descrip- 



tion of the Province of South Carolina, drawn up at Charles-Town, in September, 1731. 



'Lawson, John. A new voyage to Carolina: containing the exact description and 

 natural history of that country and A journal of a thousand <mile8 travel'd 



thro' several nations of Indians. 1709. 



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