n8 $efo=(!Httglantis ftarittrs. 



that have [64] skill in Building of Ships, that here is 

 abfolutely the beft Trees in the World, many of them 

 being three Fathom about, and of great length. 1 



An Acharijion for the Scurvy. 



The tops of Green Spruce Boughs boiled in Bear, and 

 drunk, is affuredly one of the beft Remedies for the Scur- 

 vy, reftoring the Infecled party in a fhort time; they 

 alfo make a Lotion of fome of the decoction, adding 

 Hony and Allum. 



Hemlock Tree, a kind of Spruce, the bark of this Tree 

 ferves to dye Tawny; the Fifhers Tan their Sails and 

 Nets with it. 2 



1 Abies nigra, Poir. (black or double spruce), and probably also A. alba, 

 Michx. (white or single spruce). "At Pascataway there is now a spruce-tree, 

 brought down to the water-side by our mass-men, of an incredible bigness, and 

 so long that no skipper durst ever yet adventure to ship it ; but there it lyes and 

 rots." — Josselyn's Voyages, p. 67. 



2 Abies Canadensis (L.), Michx. (hemlock spruce). Beside the coniferous 

 trees here set down, our author mentions in his Voyages (p. 67) " the white ce- 

 dar, ... a stately tree, and is taken by some to be tamarisk." This, which is 

 probably our white cedar (Ciiflressus thyoides, L.), he says " the English saw into 

 boards to floor their rooms ; for which purpose it is excellent, long-lasting, and 

 w r ears very smooth and white. Likewise they make shingles to cover their houses 

 with, instead of tyle. It will never warp." Wood (New-Eng. Prospect, chap, v.) 

 makes mention of a "cedar-tree, ... a tree of no great growth; not bearing 

 above a foot and a half, at the most ; neither is it very high. . . . This wood is 

 more desired for ornament than substance; being of colour'red and white, like 

 eugh; smelling as sweet as juniper. It is commonly used for ceiling of houses, 

 and making of chests, boxes, and staves." This seems likely to have been the 

 American Arbor vita? (Thya occidentalis, L.); also called white-cedar. — Com- 

 pare Emerson, Trees and Shrubs of Mass., pp. 96, 100. For mention of the juni- 

 per, see ante, p. 49. 



