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Iron W ood. Of this the Indians form 

 large heavy clubs, with fharp edges, 

 which ferve them for offenfive weapons, 

 a iingle blow with them being more 

 than fufficient to divide the fkull. The 

 Locuft, Green Hart, Purple Hart, Bul- 

 let Tree, Bow Wood, and Iron Wood, 

 all grow in the internal part of the 

 country, on a dry elevated foil. All 

 thefe trees are formed into pieces of 

 timber, adapted for the building of 

 windmills, and tranfported in great 

 quantities, and at a very great expence, 

 to the Englijh Weft-India Iflands, where 

 they are fold to the Planters for not lefs 

 than fifty pounds fterling each piece, 

 efpecially the principal ones. This oc- 

 cafions the Englijh Planters a vaft ex- 

 pence, which thofe of this country 

 intirely efcape, as they alio do many 

 other difadvantages to which they are 

 expofed. 



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