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a man with him, who lived in Carolina and 

 I obtained feveral particulars about that 

 province from him 3 a few of which I will 

 here mention. 



Tar, pitch and rice are the chief pro- 

 ducts of Carolina. The foil is very fandy, 

 and therefore many pines and firs grow in 

 it, from which they make tar : the firs 

 which are taken for this purpofe are com- 

 monly fuch as are dried up of themfelves; 

 the people here in general not knowing 

 how to prepare the firs by taking the bark 

 off on one, or on feveral fides, as they do 

 in OJirobothnia, In fome parts of Carolijia 

 they likewife make ufe of the branches. The 

 manner of burning or boiling, as the man 

 defcribes it to me, is entirely the fame as in 

 Finland. The pitch is thus made : they 

 dig a hole into the ground and fmear the 

 infide well with clay, into which they 

 pour the tar, and make a fire round it, 

 which is kept up till the tar has got thq 

 confiftence of pitch. They make two kinds 

 of tar in the North American colonies : one 

 is the common tar, which 1 have above 

 defcribed, and which is made of the fi:ems, 

 branches, and roots of fuch firs, as were 

 already confiderably dried out before j which 

 is the moft common way in this country. 

 The other way in peeling the bark from 

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