172 Augujl 1749. 



comes to any confiderablefize. It is pretty 

 frequent in the clefts of mountains, but 

 cannot grow to any remarkable height or 

 thicknefs. The talleft trees, I have found 

 in the woods in Canada^ were about thirty 

 or thirty-fix feet high. A tree of exactly 

 ten inches diameter had ninety-two rings 

 round the ftem * 5 another of one foot and 

 two inches in diameter had one hundred and 

 forty-two rings '^. 



The inhabitants of Canada generally 

 make ufe of this tree in the following cafes. 

 It being reckoned the mofi: durable wood 

 in Canada^ and which bell: withftands pu- 

 trefadion, fo as to remain undamaged for 

 above a man's age, enclofures of all kinds 

 are fcarce made of any other than this wood, 

 all the pofts which are driven into the 

 ground, are made of the Thuya wood. 

 The palifades round the forts in Canada 

 are likewife made of the fame wood. The 

 planks in the houfes are made of it ; and 

 the thin narrow pieces of wood which form^ 

 both the ribs and the bottom of the bark- 

 boats, commonly made ufe of here, are 

 taken from this wood, becaufe it is pliant 



* Of thefe rings or circles, it is well known all trees get 

 t one every year, fo that they ferve to afcertain the age ot 



;._. trr-:', ;^r,d the quicknefs, or flownefs of its growth. F. 

 •; The bark is not included, when I fprak of the diameters 



c: :• :;fe trees. 



enough 



