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ant and refreshing Shades in the extremity of hot Weather: 

 And such are the lofty Cypress or White Cedar, the Red 

 Cedar, the Pitcli Pine, the Yellow Pine, the White Pine with 

 long Leaves, and the smaller Almond-Pine: Hornbeam, Holly 

 two sorts, Bay-Tree, two sorts of Myrtle, two sorts of Ever- 

 green Oaks, Misseltoe of the Oak, G ullh err y -Tree, Privet, 

 Sacine, Yaupan, or Cassemi, whereof the Tea is made, so 

 very much in request amonst both the Indians, and Chris- 

 tians, with many other Ever-greens. 



I shall in the next Place treat of the Timber that this 

 Country produces, viz. 



The Chestnut Oak, is a very lofty Tree and clear of 

 Boughs and Limbs, for fifty or sixty Feet high, and is com- 

 monly four or five Feet Diameter, they are the largest Oaks 

 w^e have, and yield the fairest Planks. These kind of Oaks 

 grow chiefly in low" Land that is stiif and rich ; some of them 

 are so high that a good Gun will hardly kill a Turkey on the 

 top of them, though with Sw^an Shot. They are called the 

 Chesnut Oak from the sw^eetness and largeness of the Acorns ; 

 the Leaves and Bark of this and all the following Oaks are of 

 a very Binding Mature, and may successfuly be used to stop 

 all kind of Fluxes, the Salt is Diuretick, and the Wood of 

 some are of the same Uses and Virtues with Guajacum ; as is 

 manifest in its cure of the Yaws and other Disorders. In 

 most of all the Oaks, gTOw^s a long Moss, whereof the Cattle 

 and Deer are very fond, wdiich I have already mentioned. 



The White Scaly Bark Oak; this is used as the former in 

 building Sloops, Brigantines, Ships, and other Vessells of 

 Burthen. And though it bears a larger Acorn, yet it never 

 grows to the bulk and height of the former. This kind of 

 Oak is found generally growling on dry stiif Lands and is so 



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