which grows \n Nova-Scotia^ and (as I hear) in the moreEa* 
ftcrly parts ofN. Ei^gUnd. Upon this bark there are httle 
knobs, within which thereis a liquid matter hke Turpentine 
( which will run out,the knob being cut open ) of a very fanative 
nature, as I am informed by thofe ^ who atfirm , that they have 
often tryed it. 
In the fame Box are Pods of a Vegetable , we call Silk-grafs , 
which are full of a kind of moft fine cown-like Cotton- wool^ma- 
ny fuch flocks inoneandthe fame pod ending in a flat Seed. 
'Tis tifedto ftuff up Pillows and Cufhions > being tryed to fpin, 
ic proves not ftrong enough. The Seeds 'tis like may grow 
^ with you, if fet in fome Garden 5 whereby the whole Plant may 
befeen. 
You'l find alfo a Branch of the Tree, calW the Cotton- tree, 
bearing a kind of Down which alfo is not fit to fpin. The Trees 
grow high and big. At the bottom of fome of the Leaves.next 
to the ftalk of them , is a knob;, which is hoUow^and a certain fly^ 
fome-what like apis-mire- fly, is bred therein. 
More-over,there arefome of the Matrices in which thofe 
Shels are bredjOf which the Indians make the white Wamfan- 
/^^^^one fort of their mony.- They grow on the bottom of Sea- 
bays , and the fhels are like Periwinkles 5 but greater. Whilft 
they are very fmal^ and firfl: growing , many of them are with- 
in one of the concave receptacles oiih^k Matrices ^ which re 
very tough,and ftrong, fo contrived, that they are feparate from 
one another,yetfo,that each ofthemisfaftnedtoakind of skin, 
fub tended all along to alj thefc cafes orbaggs. 
There is, befides, in a large round Box,a ftrange kind of Tijh^ 
which was taken by a Fiiherman , when he was fifhing for Cod- 
fiftiin that Sea , which is without Mafachufet Bay in N. Eng- 
land. It was living, when it was taken,which was done,I think 3 
by an hook. The name of it I know not , nor can I write more 
particularly of it,becaufe I could not yet fpeak with the Fiflier- 
man, whobroughit from Sea. I have not feenthe like. The 
Mouth is in the middle > and they fay, that all the Arms, you fee 
round about,were in motion, when it was fir ft taken. 
We 6mit the other farticulars here ^ that we may reflect a little 
See Fig. i. u{on this elaborate ficcc of Nature -y the irilb, tvhich, 
fmce 
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