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the Indians make an oil of it, to feafon their y2^- 



gamitty with. 



It is a circumftance worthy of admiration, to 

 fee the providence of the Creator, who has 

 planted fuch a number of fruit-trees of various 

 kinds in this part of the new world. There are 

 thoufands of curious animals, known before nei- 

 ther by their fhape nor by their name, and of 

 which men of the preceding ages have not even 

 had an idea. 



There are red and likewife white bays ; the lati- 

 ter bears a white flower like a tulip ; it is an ex- 

 ceeding bufhy tree, and would be an ornament 

 to the gardens of European monarchs : the In- 

 dians call it the tree of peace *. 



Near the banks of rivers there are vinqs, 

 which climb fo high along the trees, that whea 

 the grapes are taken off, they can often make a 

 whole barrel full of wine from a fmgle ftock* 

 Thefe vines grow v/ithout cultivation, and 

 the wine that is made of them is very 



harfn 



^* This is probably either the tdiptrhy iirhderjnn tuUpi- 

 /era. Linn, or the laurus a-Jfin,'alis. Linn. F. 



