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which is only a thicker and better sort of tar. 

 All these articles, turpentine, resin, spirits of 

 turpentine, tar, and pitch, are of great use in 

 arts and manufactures, and valuable materials 

 of commerce ; and as they are all obtained 

 from the same tree, the wood of which also is 

 excellent, you may well consider that as one 

 of the most useful of all the trees of the 

 forest. 



" The yellow pine is found chiefly in the 

 Middle States ; but it grows also in the South- 

 ern. It is a beautiful tree, and of a regular 

 shape ; its height is seldom more than fifty 

 or sixty feet, and its diameter about eighteen 

 inches^: the leaves are about four inches long, 

 very fine, dark green, and always grow in 

 pairs : the cones are quite small, and every 

 scale has on it a prickle. The wood is yel- 

 lowish and of very good quality, as I dare say 

 you know very well, for it is universally used 

 in house-building ; particularly for the doors, 

 stairs, window-frames &c. ; it is as easy to 

 work as the white, and more durable. Great 

 quantities of it are exported to England and 

 the West Indies, but it is becoming scarce. 



"In North Carolina there is a mountain 

 called the Table Mountain, the top and sides 



