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| the ends jaid crof8 one upon another, ‘and many: of thofe ;trees fuch 
| they thought upon this way,- of making new fences , which. isethe 
| ofthem; which as foon as'they grew voany ftrength, they remoy'd,and 
| the Pafture, that Cattle might not tread them down, being young, and | 
‘tender, they planted them between 3, and:in fourryears timie they 
grew fo ftrong, as they were of fuffi pe 4 1-3: ty tod £ pS aie BT ett os es, 
| and becamea very fufficient fenceto keep in or outithe ftrongeft Bulls 
| by the Affinigoes; and part was gathered together’, ' and made into 
| Chareoals,- for fewel at home, and for the Smiths Forge, for we have 
_|above twenty ftools, which was too great an evacuation in a hot 
| nual fweating:”' - 
| work on, they had the more powerful operation... ~ 
_ | within that , a ‘kernel ; and in that kernel, in the parting it in two 
| wife, you fhall find a thin Se, ay of a faint Carnation 
poe wy 
of thé Ifland of Barbadoes. 
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| chemfelves One into anothers and’ then they become as ftrong; and 
ufeful afence, asany canbe made, {0 clofe , as to. Keep in, Canies, 
|.and keepout Rats 3 for, neither Cattle nor Vermme love tocome near | 
it. Andas it is a beautiful and ufeful fence , for'Gardens-and Or- 
chards, andtokeep in Conies, Turkies, 2%fcovia Ducks, and Dung- 
hill fowl, that cannot fly over, (having one wing clipt) {o itferves'us 
for fingular-ufe, in fencing about all our Paftures, or what other ground 
we would enclofe : For, our fences bemgall made of faln trees; with 
wood, as were apt torot anddecay , by. extreammoiture,and ‘vio-| 
Jent heat’;"and the-Planters having found:the moft:of them were 
rotten anddecayed, and tomake new fences of that kind unpofiible, 
-by reafon the tembers and trees that grew very near: that place ;‘were 
|amployed inmaking thole fences, (forasthey:made: them, the timber 
ftood in their way, andno moré-ado butcutthet» down, andlay:them 
in their places without furtherremoving) and removes of fogreat trees 
as they were, ‘not tobe done with few and weak hands:: Sothatthey | 
thoufand two hundred fixty eight trees to encompafSthent. . Atiaft, 
molt commodious that canbe imagined. And fo they.gatherd all the 
Phyfick-nuts they could, and fowed them, and’ made large Nurftriés | 
planted them {6, as makinga (leight hedge between the old fence:and. 
: ad. the 1, beir | 
in the Pafture, And then, allthe wood of the old fence being dry, 
and fit for the Furnaces, ‘was cut in ‘fhort pieces, cleft, and.fent home 
there no Sea-voals. Befides this, there 1s.another ufe of this-Plant,and | 
that is Phyfical: Take five of the kernels; and eat them ina morning 
fafting, and they are a Vomit and Purge; but the body mutt be ftrong | 
that takes fo many : three will ferveia body thats eafie to work on: 
Pmy-felf took ‘five of them, and they gave-me:twelve vomits, and 
Countrey, where the body is weak, and the {piritsexhaufted by conti- 
> But Law a ftronger man there take them before. me 5 and: they 
wrought moderately with him; but, finding a weaker conftitution to 
" ‘This Nut, as it grows on thettee, is likea white Pear-plamb, and 
that being taken off, thereremains a ftone, of a blackith colour, and | 
halves,-as out Hazle-nuts in England, will part in the middle long: 
aig 
which 
“were come to’agreat ftrait, and knew not which way , gor how to 
|renew theic fences; fome of the Paftures having: no: Jé{s than. three | 
ofa yellowith colour, witha pulp on it.) as much: as a:Plumbs. but! aa 
