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and of a very pleasant agreeable taste. We make 

 no use of tins plant, nor any other, for hedges, 

 because tmiber is so plentiful at present. In my 

 judgement, the honey locust would be the fittest 

 for hedges ; because it is very apt to shoot forth 

 many sprouts and succors from the roots, besides, 

 it is of a quick growth, and very prickly. 



The black haw grows on a slender tree, about 

 the height of a quince tree, or something higher, 

 and bears the black haw, which people eat, and 

 the birds covet also. What virtues the fruit or 

 wood is of, I cannot resolve you at present. 



Thus have I given an account of all the sponta- 

 neous fruits of Carolina, that have come to my 

 knowledge, excepting services, which I have seen 

 in the Indians' hands and eat of them, but never 

 saw how, nor where tliey grow. There may very 

 well be expected a great many more fruits, which 

 are the natural product of this country, when we 

 consider the fruitfulness of the soil and climate, 

 and account for the vast tract of land, (great part 

 of which is not yet found out) according to the 

 product of that which is already discovered, which, 

 as I once hinted before, is not yet arrived to our 

 knowledge, we having very little or no correspon- 

 dence amongst the mountainous parts of this pro- 

 vince, and towards the country of Missiasippi, all 

 which we have strange accounts of, and some very 

 large ones, with respect to the different and noble 

 fruits, and several other ornaments and blessings of 

 nature which Missiasippi possesses ; more to be 



