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The third sort grow on one single Stem, about three or four 

 Feet high, in low rich Lands, and on the Banks of the Rivers ; 

 their Fruit are as large and good as the former, and are very 

 plenty in many places of this Province. 



The fourth sort grow on Trees about ten or twelve Feet 

 high, and about the thickness of the small of a Man's Leg; 

 are very pleasant, and bear wonderfully: These grow plen- 

 tifully in wet low Grounds, in many places in this Province ; 

 the Planters gather great Quantities of them in the Season, 

 dry them in the Sun, and make use of them for Puddings, 

 Minc'd Pyes, and many other Uses as we do Currans and 

 Raisons: All these sorts ripen gTadually one after another. 

 The Indians get many Bushells of them, which they likewise 

 dry on their Matts in the Sun, and preserve and keep all the 

 Winter, whereof they make Bread mix'd with Indian-Corn- 

 Meal, like our Plum-Cahes, and several other Eatables, which 

 are pleasant enough. 



^Willow-Oak is a kind of Water-Oak, so call'd from its 

 Leaves, which very much resemble those of the Willow. It 

 grows in low Grounds and ponds of Water, and is used for 

 Fire, Fences, &c. 



April-Currans, so call'd, from their being ripe in that 

 Month, grow on the Banks of the Rivers, or where Clay has 

 been thrown up ; the Fruit when ripe, is red, and very soon 

 gone. They are tollerable good Fruit whilst they last, and 

 the Tree (for it is not a Bush they grow upon) is a pleasant 

 Vegetable. 



Bermudas-Currans, so call'd, from their growing plenti- 

 fully in that Island, are very common in the Woods of Caro- 



M Una 



♦This Tree by Omission, hatli not been inserted in its proper Place, 

 viz. amongst tlie Oahs, whereof it is a Species. 



