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of 3 ifit be (ufFer'd to look up in a Garden^it will wind about all Herbs , 

 and Plants that have ftalks, pull them down and deftroy them 5 or ifit 

 find the way into any Orchard, it will clime up by the bodies of the 

 trees into the branches, and there inwrap them fo, as to draw them 

 (as it were) into a purfei fforoutof the mainftalk, hundreds offmall 

 iprigs will grow^) and if any other tree be foneer as to touch it^it will 

 find the way to it , and pull the tops of them together , and utterly 

 disfigure the trees, and hinder the growth of the fruity and if you cut 

 the main ftalk below, neer therootjin hope to kill it, the moyfture a- 

 bove in the branches, will thruft down a Vine into the ground, and get 

 a new root : Nay, this is not all the mifchief , for it will reach the 

 highcft timber, and involve and enwrap fo the branches, as to hinder 

 their growths^artd many times faften onfe tree to another, that one fhall 

 hinder the growth oF another. A couple of Colonel Draxes Axemen 

 were felling a tree, and about the time it began to bend, that they 

 perceiv'd which way it would fall , got clear on the other fide , and 

 thought themfelves lafe : But this being faftned to another by ftrong 

 Withes, pul I'd a great branch of that tree after it, which fell upon the 

 fellers, and bruifed them fo as they hardly Icap'd with their lives. 

 Cleere a pafiage of ten foot broad, that goes between a wood and a 

 land of Canes overnight, and come next morning , and you (hall find 

 the way croft all over with Withs, and got neer the Canes 3 So that 

 if you had left your vifit till the next day, they had gotten into the 

 Canes,andthcn it would be too late to help : for when they are mixt 

 with them you catmotr deftroy the one without the other, for where- 

 fbever tney touch ground they get new roots , and fo creep into 

 every place, and as they go pulldown all. Thefe harraeful Withes , 

 have with all thefe vices Ibme virtues. They lerve for all ules where 

 roapsor cords are required, as for binding our Wood and Canes into 

 faggots, or what clfe roapes are needful for 3 and without them we 

 were in ill condition for we have not any wood fit to make hoops for 

 hogfheads, barrels, rubbs , or what not 3 and we can have them of 

 what length and bignefs we pleafe , and they are for that ufe very 

 good. 



Several kinds of thefe Withes there are , fome that bear fi*uit , 

 fomewhat bigger then the Cod of a Bean, which being divided long- 

 wife with a fharp knife,y ou Qiall perceive the moft various and beauti- 

 fulleft Colours that can be, and fo well matcht, as to make up a very 

 great beauty. 



Fell a dofcn acres oFwood, going on in a ftraight line, and when 

 thegroLind iscleered, the fide of that wood you leftftanding will be 

 likewiie in the lame ftrait line, and in a few years thefe Withes will 

 mount to the tops oFthe Trees, which are for the moft part, eighty or 

 103 fo3t high, and from that top to the ground, on the outfide of the 

 wood, all will be cover 'd with leaves, and thofe are broad, green,and 

 ihining, fo that if you be abfent from the place two or three years , 

 and look to find a wood, you find a fair green Curtain, 300 paces 

 long, and 80 foot high , which is as pretty a deceptio vrfns^zs you can j 

 find .Ttny where, and this is one of the pleafanteft Viftos in the Iflands 

 tlielame things are done in the mouths or entrances of Caves^ where; 



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