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f^rkje-kzthcts for their Children^ Tobaccc^ 
pipes of ftone with Imagesie upon them. 
Kettles of Birchen-bark^ which they ufed 
before they traded with the Frmch for 
Copper Kettles, by all which you may ap« 
pirently fee that neccflity was at firftthe 
mother of all inventions. The women are 
the workers of moft of thefe, and^are now^ 
here and there one €:^ccllent needle woman, 
and will milk a Cow neatly, their i icheft 
(radc are Furs of divers forts, Black FoJc^ 
Beaver^ 0 tier y Bear^ Sables ^ Maurices ^ Fo^^ 
Wild'Catj KaHoGHSy Martins , Mufquajh , 
Moofe'sjqns* 
Ships they have none, but do prettily 
imitate ours in their Birchen-pimaces^ theit 
Canows are made of Birch^ they fhape them 
with flat Ribbs of w\viit Cedars and cover 
them with large fheets of Birch^bark^y fow* 
ing them through with ftrong threds of 
Sprufe-Roots or white Cedar^ and plfch thcrrt 
with a mixture of Tmpentine and, the hard 
lofcn that is diyed' with the Air on the out- 
fidc of the Bark of Firr-trecf. Thefc will 
carry half a dozen or three or four mert 
and a confiderable fraight 5 in thefe they 
fWim to.Sea twenty^nay foiity mikSskecping 
from the fliore a league or two^, fomerimes 
to fliorteti their voyage when^ they are to 
doublca C-ape they will put to (hoie, snd 
