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almoft conceal from view the low-feated 

 towns and villages. From its great fize, 

 boards are fawn from it very iit for flooring, 

 which have the ufeful property of fmother- 

 ing rather than flaming, when a lighted 

 coal falls upon them. The wood likewife is 

 not apt to fplinter. The bark is light like 

 cork, and ferves to buoy up fifhermen's 

 nets. Red fubftances like cherries are fome- 

 times found on the leaves, which are occa- 

 iioned by the puncture of an infect 





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