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hammer: the kernel is fweet and well-tafted, from which the Indians draw a wholfome oil; 
they alfo ftore them up for their winter provifion; and the hogs, as well as many wild animals, 
“receive great benefit from them. The wood is coarfe-grained, yet of much ufe for many things 
belonging to agriculture. Of the faplings or young trees are made the beft hoops for tobacco, _ 
tice, and tar-barrels ; and for the fire, no wood in the northern parts of America is in fo much | 
requeit: its ftrength and toughnefs render it likewife in great repute for walking-fticks. 
21. Nux Fuglans alba Carolinenfis, minimo putamine levi. 
‘The Pig-nut. 
The branches of this tree fpread more, are fmaller, and the leaves not fo broads thofe of 
the hiccory ; nor is the bark fo wrinkled: the nuts are not above one fourth fo big as thofe 
of the hiccory, and have both the inner and outer fhell fo thin that they may eafily be broke 
with one’s fingers; the kernels are fweet, but covered with a very bitter fkin, which makes 
thens: not eatable, except by {quirrels and other wild creatures that can feparate this bitter film 
better than human hands are capable of doing. 
See co. Mer Virginiand, fruklu racemato parvo in finguls capfulis 
echinatis unico. 
The Chinkapin. 
“This is a fhrub that feldom grows higher than fixteen feet, and ufually not above eight or 
ten; the body is commonly eight or ten inches thick and irregular; the bark rough; the 
leaves are ferrated, and grow alternately of a dark green, their backfides being of a greenifh- 
white: at the joints of the leaves fhoot forth long fpikes of whitifh flowers, like thofe of the 
common chefnut, which ate fucceeded by nuts of a conic fhape, and the fize of a hafel-nut ; the 
hell which inclofes the kernel is of the colour and confiftence of that of a chefnut, inclofed in 
-a prickly burr; ufually five or fix hang in a clufter: they are ripe in September. Thefe nuts are 
-fweeter than the European chefnut, and of great ufe to the Indians, who lay them up for their 
“winter's | a When fent from America they frequently difappoint our expectations, and 
will not come up; for which two reafons may be afligned; the firft is, that: they are very 
apt to have maggots in them, which devour the kernels, and make them good for nothing ; 
iad Es ithe fecond, that being ape too long out of the ground, they lofe their germinating power 
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