A True dined Beall HE iftory 
| Iron wood. 
Lignum 
Vite. 
Locuft. 
(isa ftrong and Jafting timber, good for building, and for all ufes with- 
| in doors. 
Iron wood is ¢alled fo, for the extream hardnefs; and with that 
| hardnefs it has fuch a heavine(s, as they feldomufeit in building ; be- 
fides, the workmen complain that it breaks all their tools. “Tis good } 
for any ufe without doors, for neither Sun nor rain can any wayes mol- 
lifieit. “Tis much ufed for Coges to the Rollers. 
Lignum vite they ufe now and then for the fame purpofe, when the | 
other isaway 5 but having nobowling inthat Countrey, little is ufed : 
They fendit commonly for Exgland, where. we employ it to feveral 
ufes 5 as, for making Bowles, Cabinets, Tables, and Tablemen. 
TheLocuft is a tree, not unfitly to be refembled toa Tufcan Pillar , 
plain, maffie, and rurall, like a well limb’d labourer ; for, the burden 
it bears being heavy and ponderous , ought to have a body propor- 
tionably built, to bearfo great a weight. Thatrare Architect, Vicra- 
viws, taking a pattern from Trees, to make his moft exaG Pillars, re- 
je&s the wreathed, vined, and figured Columnss and that Columna 
| Atticurges, mentioned by himfelf; tohave been a fquared Pillars and 
~ “thofe that are fwell’d in the middle, asiffick of a Tympany or Drop- 
' fies and chufes rather the {traighteft , moft exact, and bett fiz’d , to 
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“bear the burthen that lyesonthem.’ So; lookin’ on thefe trees, and 
finding them fo exactly to‘anfwer in proportion tothe Tufcan Pillars , | 
Icould not but make the refemblance theother way: For, Pillars can- 
enor bemore like Trees, than thefe«Irees are like Tufcan Pillars , as 
he deferibes them. [have feena Locuft (and not one, but many) that 
‘hath been four. foot diameter in the body, near the root, and for fifty | 
foot high has leffened fo proportionably, asifit had taken pattern by 
theancient Remainders, which Philander was fo precifé in meafuring , 
whichis 4 third part of the wholefhaft upward’, and is accounted as 
the moft :gracefulidiminution. The head ‘to this body is {o proportio- 
nable,-as you cannot fay, ‘tis too heavy or too light; the branches 
large, the {prigs, leaves, and nuts fo thick, ‘as to {top alleye-fight from 
| pafling through, and fo even at top , as you would think you might 
;walkuponit, and not fink in. The nuts are for the moft part three 
-inches and'a half‘long, and about two inches broad , and fomewhat 
pmore than an inchthick 5 the fhell fomewhat thicker than a half crown 
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piece; of a ruffet Umbre, or hair colour 5 the leaves bigger than thofe 
{that grow uponthe Afhin Exgland : I fhall not mention the timber, 
-having given itin my Buildings. The Kernels are three or four in every. 
nut, and between thofe, a kind of light pulpy fubftance, fich as isin a 
“0% }Hazle-nut, ‘before the kernel be grown to the full bignefs : Intimes of 
| greatfamine there; the poor people have eaten them for fuftenance : 
But ofall taftes, Idonotlike them. ~ ) oy 
-pss@nother Locuft there is, “which they call the baftard-Locuft. This 
fair, but willnot laft. — Sate 
: ‘Where-isa treecalled the Palweto,growing near the Sea-coaft,which 
he ‘being a fandy light ground, doesnot afford that fub{tance: of mould , | ° 
tomake a large tree; nor fhall-you find in that low part ofthe Ifland, | 
any confiderable trees fit for building, which is a main want and hin- | 
derance to them that! would biiild there; for, there is no means to. 
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