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exquisite Pain: The Fruit soon rots after it is ripe, and 

 contains four flat Stones, resembling those of the Tamarinds. 

 The Planters make Beer of its Fruit, which they call Per- 

 simon Beer. There are two sorts of this Fruit, the one ripe 

 in Summer, and the other not before the Frost visits those 

 Parts; these Trees sometimes grow to two Feet diameter, 

 some make use of the Bark, instead of the Cortex peruviana, 

 or Jesuits Bark, for Agues, and it is reported that that Bark is 

 from the Persimon Tree in Neiv-Spain. 



The Holly Tree, whereof there are two sorts, one with a 

 large Leaf, and the other with a smaller, thev generally are 

 to be met with in low wet Grounds ; both sorts are in plenty, 

 and grow tollerably large, yet I have seldom seen any use 

 made of their Wood, there being such plenty of much better. 

 Their Berries are said to be good in the Choliclc, for ten or 

 twelve being taken inwardly, purge strongly by Stool. The 

 Birdlime which is made of the Bark, being applied Plaster- 

 wise, consolidates Wounds, eases all manner of Pains, and 

 strengthens the I^erves, but if taken inwardly, it is mortal, for 

 it glues the Intrails together, so that the passages of the Excre- 

 ments are intirely shut up. 



The Chinkapin Tree is a kind of a Chesnut, and very plen- 

 tiful, they bear great quantities of ^N'uts which are less than 

 a Hazle-nut, and of a Piramedial Form, they are in Taste 

 like a Chesnut, but sweeter: It's jN'ut has a Husk or Bur 

 about it like the former, which opens when it is ripe, so that 

 the Fruit falls to the Ground, which is good feeding for 

 Hogs, making them fat and excellent Pork. The Grain of 

 the Wood and the Leaves on the Trees are very like the 

 Chesnut, but the Timber is not so large, yet it is used to Tim- 

 ber Boats, Shallops, (&c. and makes anything that is to endure 



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