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Pellamount, or Mountain time. 1 
Moufe-ear Minor? 
The making of Oyl of Akrons. To firengthen weak Mem- 
bers. For ScaWd-heads. 
There is Oak of three kinds, white, red and black, 
the white is excellent to make Canoes of, Shallopes, 
Ships, and other Velfels for the Sea, and for Claw-board, 
and Pipe-ftaves, the black is good to make Waynfcot 
of; and out of the white Oak Acorns, (which is the Acorn 
Bears delight to feed upon) : The Natives draw an Oyl, 
taking the rotteneft Maple Wood, which being burnt to 
alhes, they make a ftrong Lye therewith, wherein they 
boyl their white Oak-Acorns until the Oyl fwim on the 
top in great quantity; this [49] they fleet off, and put into 
bladders to annoint their naked Limbs, which corroba- 
rates them exceedingly; they eat it likewife with their 
Meat, it is an excellent clear and fweet Oyl: Of the Mofs 
that grows at the roots of the white Oak the Indeffes make 
a ftrong deco6tion, with which they help their Papoufes or 
young Childrens fcall'd Heads. 3 
1 Gerard, p. 653 {Teucrium, L.). The author may have intended to reckon 
the genus only. Our species is peculiar to this continent. 
2 The designation is uncertain. The old botanists gave the name Auricula 
man's, or mouse-ear, to species of Myosotis, Draba, Hier actum, and Gnafhalium. 
Josselyn's plant may most probably be Atitennaria pla?itaginifolia, Hook, (mouse- 
ear of New England), which is very near to A. dioica of Europe. — Gray, Statis- 
tics, d-c, I. c, p. 81. 
3 Quercus alba, L. ; Q rubra, L. ; and tindoria, Bartr. Wood's account of 
the oaks (New-England's Prospect, chap, v.) is similar. In his Voyages, p. 61, 
Josselyn gives us " the ordering of red oake for wainscot. When they have cut it 
