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*71. Aquifolium Virginianum. 
The Holly of America. 
There appears no fpecific difference between the common American and the common Englifh 
Holly ; the leaves of the-American being more or lefs prickly, and fome wholly without; and 
the berries fomewhat lefs, and of a brighter red; but they differ moft in ftature: thofe of 
America, particularly i in the upper parts of Virginia, are frequently forty and soeneniines fifty 
. feet high; the trunk fourteen aind eighteen inches diameter, and very erect. 
*72. Funiperus Virginiana. 
~The Cedar of North America. 
_ Thefe trees are natives of the maritime parts of North America from. the cape of Florida 
to the latitude of between forty and fifty degrees; which extenfive tra&t for above a century 
paft has afforded a fuflicient fupply of this wood for building infinite numbers of fhips and 
floops, yet there ftill remain inexhauftible quantities fit for the fame purpofe; for being of a 
quick growth they become good timber in twenty years. The inhabitants of Bermudas firft 
became famous for their cedar veffels, and long retained the reputation of building them to 
_ fach a degree, that in England cedar floops and .ermudas floops were fynonymous terms; and 
moft people fuppofed that all the cedar veffels in America were built at Bermudas; whereas 
that whole ifland contains not the hundredth part of the quantity of land that affords cedar, 
and confequently the number of fhips built on that little ifland is inconfiderable in comparifon 
to what the continent, the Bahama, and other iflands furnifh. It is true, the wood of the - 
Bermudas cedar is preferred to that of the continent; for as rocky foils produce the firmeft ~ 
wood, the cedars of Bermudas receiving their nourifhment from folid rocks, acquire a clofenefs 
and folidity in the grain beyond what thofe have which grow in the fandy loofe foil on the 
continent: however the different appearance of cedars (which is often caufed by different foils 
or feminal. varieties) is no fufficient reafon for fuppofing fo many different {pecies ; for in 
America I have frequently gathered fpecimens from a grove of thefe trees, and even from a 
fingle tree, that have agreed with all the different characters by which they have been diftin- 
euifhed in England. I was. told -by a perfon of probity and curiofity, that he carried fome 
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