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peras exudes in a state sufficiently pure in quality, and in 

 quantities sufficient for several families, who collect and use it 

 in dying. The same may be said of alum, which is collected 

 in the same way for similar purposes. 



Botany. 



Though this county is very rich in the mineral, yet it is not 

 less so in the vegetable kingdom, as may be seen by a refer- 

 ence to the subjoined catalogue, although numbers of trees, 

 shrubs, and plants, are purposely omitted, which are knowa 

 to exist here. 



Family. 

 Oak, 



Maple, 



Poplar or Tulip, 



Walnut, 



Beach, 



Ash, 



Elm. 

 Buckeye, 



Locust, 



Persimmon, 

 Linn or Bast 

 Wood, 



Species. 



White, 



Black, 



Meadow, 



Chesnut, 



Sugar, 



White, 



White, 



Yellow, 



Black, 



Whitej 



ShellbarkHickorj', 



Pignut, 



Bitternut, and pro- 

 bably several 

 other species. 



Two species, 



Chesnut, 



White, 



Blue, 



Black, 



Swamp, 



Two or three spe- 

 cies. 



Common, 



Sweet, 

 Four species, 



Classical name. 



Remarks. 



Quercus Alba, Abundant. 



Nigra, Do. 



Aquatica, Along the stream*. 



Prunus, , Scarce. 



Acer Saccharinum, Abundant. 



Alba, 



Liriodendron, Abundant. 



Juglans Nigra. 



Alba. 



Albaovata. 



Minima. 



Fagus. 



Americana. 



Fraxinus Alba. 



Purpurea. 



Nigra. 



Aquatica. 



Ulmus. 



^sculusflava Lu- 



tea? 



Maxima ? 



Robinia Pseud A- 



cacia, &c. 

 Diospyros Virginica. 

 Tilia EuTopea. 



