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lies higher in the country, they carry iron 

 bars to this place, and fhip them. 



Canoes are boats made of one piece of 

 wood, and are much in ufe with the farm- 

 ers, and other people upon the Delaware, 

 and fome little rivers. For that purpofe a 

 very thick trunk of a tree is hollowed out; 

 the red juniper or red cedar tree, the white 

 cedar, the chefnut tree, the white oak, and 

 the tulip tree are commonly made ufe of 

 for this purpofe. The canoes made of red 

 and white cedar are reckoned the beft, be- 

 caufe they fwim very light upon the water, 

 and laft twenty years together. But of 

 thefe, the red cedar canoes are moft prefe- 

 rable. Thofe made of chefnut trees will 

 likewife hit. for a good while. But thofe 

 of white oak are hardly ferviceable above 

 fix years, and alfo fwim dtcp, becaufe they 

 are fo heavy. The Liquidambar tree, or 

 Liquidambar Jlyraciflua^ Linn, is big enough 

 but unfit for making canoes, becaufe it 

 imbibes the water. The canoes which 

 are made of the tulip tree, fcarce laffc 

 fo long as thofe of white oak. The fize 

 of the canoes is different, according to 

 the purpofes they are deftined for. They 

 . can carry fix perfons, who however, muft 

 by no means be unruly, but fit at the bot- 

 tom of the canoe in the quieter! manner 



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