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harlli *. There are many mulberry-trees -j- in 

 the woods, and their berries are very iweet •, there 

 are likewife fome that always keep the figure 

 of Ihrubs, and their berries are made ufe of for 

 jellies. 



There is a tree in the woods full of fpines of 

 fix inches in length ; its wood is fo hard, that 

 it makes the edge of the hatchets" blunt, and 

 fometimes breaks them. The Indians, by 

 means of fire, make mortars of it to crufh their 

 maize in. This tree bears pods about a foot 

 long like cciffia ; the fruit they contain is gum- 

 my and {licking, having feveral feeds like beans. 

 It is an excellent laxative, and the Indians take 

 it as a purge. 



There are rcfinous trees (fuch as pines, &c.) 

 in the woods, which produce refin and tar -, 

 there are likewife many trees, from which a kind 

 of gum like turpentine runs down. 



There 



^v The American forefts have three kinds of vines ; the 

 *vitis Icibnifca, ^ulpina, and arborea, Linn- And this, here 

 mentioned, Teems to be the lail. F. 



f The morns rubra Linn, is the mulberry-tree, known to 

 grew in A'^r/// America. F. 



