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the cherry-tree is exceeding plentiful. Thefe trees 

 grow to a great thicknefs and very ftrait ; very good 

 planks and boards may be made of them, .and 

 even ftaves for dry ware calks. It is foft and eafily 

 worked ; the Indians peel off the bark of this tree 

 to cover their cabins. 



Elms are very plenty all over this country. 

 There are white and red elms ; the wood of this 

 tree is difficult to work but lads longeft. The bark 

 of the red elm is that of which the Iroquois make 

 their canoes. Some of them which are made of 

 one fingle piece, will contain twenty perfons ; fome 

 of them are likewife hollow, and to thefe the bears 

 and wild cats retire in the month of November, 

 and remain till April. The poplar grows com-* 

 monly on the banks of rivers and on the fea- 

 Ihore. 



In the thicker!: woods are found great numbers of 

 prune or plumb-trees, loaden with a very four fruit. 

 The vinage-tree is a very pithy fhrub, which pro- 

 duces a four cluttering fruit, of the colour of bul- 

 lock's blood ; they caufe infufe it in water, and 

 make a fort of vinegar of it. The Pemime, is an- 

 other fhrub growing along rivulets, and in mea- 

 dows \ it bears alfo a cluttering fruit yielding a red 

 and very aftringent liquor. There are three forts 

 of goofeberry -trees in this country thefe are the 

 fame with thofe of France. The Bluet grows here 

 as in Europe in woods. This fruit is a fovereign 

 and fpeedy cure for the dyfentery. The Indians 

 dry them as we do cherries in France. 



The Atoca is a ttone- fruit of the fize of a cherry. 

 This plant which creeps along the ground in fwamps, 



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