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yet some use this, as well as the two farmer, for 

 pipe and barrel staves. It makes good clap 

 boards. 



Spanish oak is free to rive, bears a whitish, 

 smooth bark, and rives very well into clap boards. 

 It is accounted durable, therefore some use to 

 build vessels with it for the sea ; it proving well 

 and durable. These all bear good mast for the 

 swine. 



Bastard Spanish is an oak betwixt the Spanish 

 and red oak ; the chief use is for fencing and clap 

 boards. It bears good acorns. 



The next is black oak, which is esteemed a du- 

 rable wood uilder water ; but sometimes it is used 

 in house work. It bears a good mast for hogs. 



White iron .or ring oak, is so called from the du- 

 rability and lasting quality of this wood. It chiefly 

 grows on dry, lean land, and seldom fails of bear- 

 ing a plentiful crop of acom-s. This- wood is found 

 to be very durable, and is esteemed the best oak 

 for ship work that we have in Carolina ; for though 

 live oak be more lasting, yet it seldom allows 

 planks of any considerable length. 



Turkey oak is so called from a small acorn it 

 bears, which the wild turkeys feed on. 



Live oak chiefly grows on dry sandy knolls. 

 This is an evergreen and the most durable oak all 

 America aflbrds. The shortness of this wood's 

 bowl or trunk, makes it unfit for plank to build, 

 ships withal. There are some few trees that would 

 allow a stock of twelve feet, but the firmness and 



