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considerably from those of Pennsylvania, from their nearer 
neighborhood to the sun. As to timber and wood, they have all 
the sorts that are found upon the continent; many sorts of oaks, 
cedars, firs, cyprus, elm, ash and wallnut; some of their oaks 
are said to measure two feet square and sixty feet in height. 
They have also, beech, poplar, hazel, besides sassafras, sarsapa- 
rilla, and other dying woods. The unsettled country is all a 
forest of these trees, without underwood, and not standing so 
close but they may anywhere be rode through. Near the coast 
the lowlands are all swamps from which grow cedars, pines, and 
cypresses.”’ 
2: 270-271. ‘There is the greatest reason to suppose that 
vineyards would thrive here advantageously, from the uncom- 
mon plenty of wild vines found in the woods, through all the 
back country.”’ 
3: 50-56. “Filberd, both with hairy husks upon the Nuts, 
and setting hollow from the Nut, and filled with a kind of water 
of an astringent taste ... The Kernals are seldom without mag- 
ots in them. Walnut; the nuts differ much from ours in Europe, 
they being smooth, much like a nutmeg in shape, and not much 
bigger; some three cornered; all of them but thinly replenished 
with kernels. 
“Chestnuts; very sweet in taste and may be (as they usually 
are) eaten raw; the Indians sell them to the English for twelve 
pence the bushel. 
“Beech, Ash, Quick-beam or wild ash. Birch, white and 
black, ... Poplar, but differing in leaf. Plumb Tree, several 
kinds, bearing some long, round, white, yellow, red, and black 
Plums; all differing in their fruit from those in England.” 
3: 30. “Oak of Hierusalem. Oak of Cappadocia. Wild cherry, 
they grow in clusters like grapes, of the same bigness, blackish, 
red when ripe, and of harsh taste. 
“Board Pine, is a very large tree two or three fadom about. 
It yields a very sovereign turpentine for the curing of desperate 
wounds. 
“Firr tree or Pitch tree. ... : 
“The Larch Tree, which is the only Tree of all the Pines, 
that sheds its leaves before winter. ae 
“Spruce is a goodly tree of which they make masts for ships, 
and Sail Yards ..., many of them (trees) being three fathom 
about and of great length. 
