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exposed to all weathers, for many ages ; and is 

 used in several domestic and plantation uses. 

 This tree affords the four great necessaries, pitch, 

 tar, rosin and turpentine ; which two last are ex- 

 tracted by tapping and the heat of the sun, the 

 other two by the heat of the fire. 



The white and yellow pines are sawed into planks 

 for several uses. They make masts, yards, and a 

 great many other necessaries therewith, the pine 

 being the most useful tree in the woods. 



The almond pine serves for masts very well. 

 As for the dwarf pine, it is for show alone, being 

 an evergreen, as they all are. 



The hickory is of the walnut kind, and bears a 

 nut as they do, of which there are found three 

 sorts. The first is that which we call the common 

 white hickory. It is not a durable wood ; for if 

 cut down and exposed to the weather, it will be 

 quite rotten, and spoiled in three years, as will 

 likewise the beech of this country. Hickory 

 nuts have very hard shells, but excellent, sweet 

 kernels, with which, in a plentiful year, the old 

 hogs, that can crack them, fatten themselves, and 

 make excellent x>ork. These nuts are gotten in 

 great quanties, by the savages, and laid up for 

 stores, of which they make several dishes and ban- 

 quets. One of these I cannot forbear mention- 

 ing ; it is this : they take these nuts, and break 

 them very small betwixt two stones, till the shells 

 and kernels are indifierent small; and this pow- 

 der you are x^i'esented withal in their cabins, in 



