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odoriferant . There are great (tore of Bay trees , very 

 pleafanttobeholdevpon the AndtsoHPeru, vpponthe 

 mountaines, in thellandsof Nicaragua, and in New 

 SpAiye. There are alfo infinite numbers of Palmes and 

 Ceivas,whereof the Indians make their Canoes,which 

 areboatesrnadeofonepeece. They bring into Spatne 

 from the Havana, excellent timber.In the Hand ofCtt. 

 ba, there are infinite numbers of like trees, as Ekenc y CA- 

 evana, Grenadtlle, Cedars, and other kindes which I do 

 not know. There arc great pine trees in New Spainc, 

 though they be not foitrong as thofe in Spring : they 

 bearenopignousorkernells, but empty apples . The 

 oaks as they cal them of GV^/<*'p/,is an excelent wood 

 and fweet,when they cut it^yea there are kanes or mod 

 high recdes, of whofc boughs or fmall reedes they doc 

 make bottles and pitchers to carry water , and do like- 

 . wife vfe them in their buildings. There is likewife the 

 *****+* wood ofjMajt(le, or Firre, whereof they make mafts for 

 their (hippes , and they holde them as ftrong as yron . 

 Uttolk is a tree of many vertues , which cafteth foorth 

 Imail boughcs, whereof the Indians make wine. In Me- 

 xico they call it the tree of Pent , for that it came from 

 thence: but it growes alfo in New Spainc^ and better 

 than thofe in Pent . There are a thouiand other trees, 

 \vhich werea fuperfiuous labour to imreate of, where* 

 of fome are of an exceeding greatnefTe, I will fpeake on. 

 ly ofone which is mTlacoChav&ya^ three leagues from 

 Guayacam New Spaine : this tree being meafurecl with- 

 in,being^hollow 5 was found to have ninefadome, and 

 without, nearetothe roote, fixteene, and fomewhat 

 higher, twelve. This tree wasftrooke with lightning 

 from the toppeto the bottome, through theheart^the 

 which caufed this hollowncfTe^they fay that before the 



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