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which are incident to women. There are in Cana- 

 da, three forts of am trees ; the free, the mongrel, 

 and the baftard. The firft grows among maples is 

 fit for carpenter's work, and for ftaves for dry 

 ware cafks. 1 he fecond has the fame qualities, 

 and like the baftard, will grow only in low and 

 good lands. 



They reckon alfo in this country three forts of 

 walnut-trees, the hard, the foft, and a third fort 

 which has a very thin bark. The hard fort bears 

 a very fmall walnut, good to eat, but very coftive. 

 The wood is only fit for fire- wood. The tender, 

 bears a long fruit, as large as thofe in France, but 

 the fnell is very hard. The kernels of them are 

 excellent. The wood is not fo pretty as ours ; but 

 to make amends it is almoft incorruptible in water, 

 or in the ground, and is difficult to confume in the 

 fire. The third produces a nut of the fame fize 

 with the firft, but in greater quantity, and which is 

 bitter, andinclofed in a very tender hufk; they make 

 excellent oil of it. This tree yields a fweeter fap 

 than that of the maple, but in a fmall quantity, 

 This grows only, as doth the foft walnut tree, in 

 the belt lands. 



The beech is here fo plentiful, that whole trads 

 are covered with them •, I have feen them growing 

 on fandy hills, and in exceeding fertile low lands. 

 They bear great quantities of nuts, from which it 

 would be an eafy matter to extract an oik The 

 bears make this their principal nourifhment, as dp 

 alfo the partridges. The wood of it is exceeding 

 tender, and very fit for oars and for fhallops. But 

 thofe of canoes are made of maple. The tree cal- 

 led white-wood, which grows amongft maples, and 



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