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particularly in wet weather, and when It is 
impregnated with watery but in proportion 
as it. dries, it lofes this noxious quality. Like 
all hard and compadl timber, it grows flowly 5 
but in procefs of time it increafes in height 
and bulk, fo as to furpafs the talleft oaks. 
1 obferved alfo the geek-houtty or yellow 
Wood, which takes its name from its colour. 
It is not fo highly valued as the other for 
making different articles of furniture; but 
as it is well fhaped and fells readily, it is 
converted into beautiful boards, planksj and 
beams for building. It produces a yellow 
fruit of the fize of a plum, which is very 
thickly covered with fmall tubercles: the 
kernel, Vv^hich is extremely hard, is the only 
part of it that can be eaten. 
Another tree, the roye-hoiiUy or red wood, 
takes its name alfo from the deep red colour 
of its bark. It is thick, but very tender, and 
a dye may be extracted from it. The fruit, 
which is of the fize of an olive, is likewife 
red when ripe : it is eat with pleafure, and 
the inhabitants mike a kind of fpirituous li- 
quor from it. 
I ftopped before a kaerfen boom^ or cherry- 
tree, which to me feemed to have no other 
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