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wood is to be got, in feveral places they 

 make charcoal of it, as I intend to mention 

 in the fequel. There is another thing 

 which deferves notice, in regard to thefe 

 trees, and which feveral people, befides 

 myfelf, have experienced. In the great 

 heat of the fummer, the cattle like to ftand 

 in the made of thefe trees, preferably to 

 that of the oak, hiccory, walnut, water- 

 beech and other trees of this kind, whofe 

 foliage is very thick ; and when the cattle 

 find the latter with the former, they always 

 choofe to ftand under the firs and pines, 

 though the other trees with annually deci- 

 duous leaves could afford a better made : 

 and if there be but a fingle pine in a wood, 

 as many cattle from the herd as can ftand 

 under it, throng to it. Some people 

 would infer from hence, that the refinous 

 exhalations of thefe trees, were beneficial 

 to the cattle, and which made them more 

 inclined to be near firs and pines, than any 

 other trees. 



The Spoon tree, which never grows to 

 a great height, we faw this day in feveral 

 places. The Swedes here have called it 

 thus, becaufe the Indians who formerly 

 lived in thefe provinces, ufed to make their 

 fpoons and trowels of the wood of this tree. 

 In my cabinet of natural curiofities, I have 



a fpoon 



