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ships, and is very beautiful for floors. It 

 grows to a great height in the woods, with- 

 out any branches ; and is not in the least 

 an ornamental tree in fields. 



There are walnut-trees in great numbers : 

 the fruit of them is not at all pleasant, it has 

 a very oily disagreeable taste, and is so fixed 

 in the shell, which is very thick, as with 

 difficulty to be got out : the case is the same 

 with the hiccory-nut ; they both requiring 

 a hammer to break them : but the kernel of 

 the latter is much pleasanter than the walnut. 

 The land is reckoned fine that bears the hic- 

 cory. There is a tree, the shell-bark, that 

 bears a nut called hiccory, the shell of 

 which breaks more easily than these of the 

 walnut or many other hiccory-trees, and is 

 agreeable to the taste. 



The chesnut-tree is very handsome, and 

 its fruit pleasant. 



There are but few hazel-trees ; therefore, 

 not many nuts : their shells are much thicker 

 and kernels smaller than those in England. 



There are ash-trees, but not in plenty; 



