pind Birchen- diflhes s there is in excrefcencf 
growing out of the body ot the Tree called 
fpunck, or dead rpens Gaps^ it giowcs at 
fhc Roots of A(b, or Bccch^ or FJm ^ but 
thebtft is that which growcs upon theblack 
B rch, this boiled snd beaten^ and then dri- 
ed in an Q\^en rnaketh excellent Touch- 
wood, and Balls to play with, ' - 
Aidcij oi which wpod there is abundance 
m the wet fwamps : the bark thcicof with 
rlit yolke of an Egg ir good fox a ftrain v' 
an Ir.dim bruifing of his knee ^ che^w^'d 
|hc baik of Alder fafting and laid it tb, 
which qukkly helped liirn. The wives of 
f ur Wcit'Countrey Engl'Oi make a drink 
with the feeds of A'dtr ^ giving it to their 
Children froublcd' with the Moes* I have 
taik\{ with many of them, but could never 
spprehtnd what difcafc it fhould be they fq 
liamc, thcfe Jrees arc called by fbmc Sul- 
linges'o 
The tell of a Tree i hit growes 
fafvupin the land, chat is as b^g as an Oake, 
that will cure the fallirg-fickntfs intaliiblyi 
whatpaxf thereof they' ufe, Birk, Wood,, 
leaves or fruit, 1 could never learn ^ they 
,|jromi{xd oCten to brirg of it to me, but' 
did not, I have feen a itately Trcx, grow- 
mg hereand there in valleys, nor like to any 
-ITrees in Europe ^ having i imooih bark of 
