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of them Ropes for Hammocks, Cordage of 

 all forts, but efpecially a finer kind of Nets 

 for fmall Fifti. In Jamaica, the Shoomakers 

 ufe this to few with, as being ftronger than 

 any other. The Spanijh Women make 

 Stockins of it, which are called SUk-grafs 

 ■Stockins, and are fold very dear. They 

 make of it alfo a kind of yellowifh Lace, 

 wich is much bought and worn by the 

 Mofiefa-women in the Weft-Indian Plan- 

 tations. 



pghf- There grows here a Tree about the big- 

 mod. ne f s Q f an jrj,^ Wood of which is ve-r 

 ry light, and we therefore call it Light-wood, 

 The Tree is very ftreight and well-bodied, 

 and has a great Leaf like a Wall-nut. A 

 Man may carry a great quantity of the 

 Wood when cut down : Its fubftance re- 

 fembles Cork, and is of a whitifti Colour 5 

 but the Grain of it is rougher than Fir, 

 or courfer yet, like that of the Cotton-tree. 

 I know not whether it has that fpongy 

 Elafticity that Cork has $ yet I fhould think 

 it an excellent Wood for making Tompkins 

 or Stopples for Muzzles of great Guns. 

 D Tis fo very light in Water that three or 

 four Logs of it, about as thick as ones 

 Thigh and about four foot long, fhall 

 make a Rafter on which two or three Men 

 may go out to Sea. The Indians make 

 large Rafters of it upon occafion, after 

 this manner : They take Logs of this 



Wood 



